On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 at 10:27:00 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 at 05:58:47 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko
wrote:
### Example of API+implementation bug:
#### Bug: RNGs has min and max params (hello C++). But, they
are not used when an uniform integer number is generated :
`uniform!ulong` / `uniform!ulong(0, 100)`.
#### Solution: In Mir Rundom any RNGs must generate all
8/16/32/64 bits uniformly. It is RNG problem how to do it.
Alternative solution: functionality that expects the full
unsigned integer word (UIntType) to be filled with random bits,
should validate that the min/max values of the generator
correspond to UIntType.min and UIntType.max.
That introduces less breaking change, creates less divergence
with the C++11 standard, and preserves more flexibility for the
future.
Good point, will add this. --Ilya
