On Friday, 13 November 2015 at 23:12:34 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
If you cannot update to the latest compiler
Didn't realised this feature is so new to the compiler. In my
case, it is no problem to update the compiler, and I will.
Thanks!
On Saturday, 14 November 2015 at 03:10:17 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
auto seed = Clock.currTime().stdTime;
(...) and you don't have to do any math.
Perfect.
On Saturday, 14 November 2015 at 03:10:17 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Alternatively, std.random.unpredictable seed is there
specifically to provide an unpredictable seed. It's probably
best to just
use that if you don't have a good reason not to.
Of course. That's why I mentioned my purpose of using
Clock.currTime(), in the hope I got corrected in using the right
and offical seed method which I failed to find, which brings me
to another point.
The D docs seem very thorough and complete to me but less
accessible in comparison to, e.g., Perl docs, Php docs, or Ruby
docs. In particular I have difficulties in understanding the
headers of the standard library function specifications (e.g.,:
auto uniform(string boundaries = "[)", T1, T2,
UniformRandomNumberGenerator)(T1 a, T2 b, ref
UniformRandomNumberGenerator urng) if
(isFloatingPoint!(CommonType!(T1, T2)) &&
isUniformRNG!UniformRandomNumberGenerator);)
These headers are necessary and give loads of information. D is
no toy language, that's for sure. Maybe a tutorial should be
written on how to read such headers and how to read the standard
library docs in general. I am making notes for myself, but these
are of too little quality to be used in the public domain.
Like I said: I am spoiled by scripting languages.
Thanks again, your answers have helped me a lot.
