On Thursday, 20 September 2012 at 10:46:22 UTC, Johannes Pfau
wrote:
That's what I did in std.digest. All Digests have a start()
method,
even if it's not necessary for that specific Digest. It's
probably a
good solution if you want a uniform interface for types which
need
initialization and types which don't.
But there's also another, nice solution which should work:
Introduce a
new makeRNG template function. This func checks if the RNG has
a seed
function and calls it if available. Then you can do this for
all RNGs:
auto rng = makeRNG!MersenneTwister();
auto rng = makeRNG!Misnstdrand();
These are good suggestions, but they are also breaking changes :/
I *AM* writing them down though, should we ever go down Jonathan
M Davis's suggestion is changing the module.
BTW: std.container also has MakeContainter, but, AFAIK, I've
never seen ANYONE use it :/
