Op Mon, 2 Jun 2008, schreef Michael Van Canneyt:
People might want to start with a defined randseed to reproduce behaviour.
This implies createguid should not call randomize automatically either, it
prevents you having deterministic behaviour, especially in a program where
guids and normal use of the randomizer are combined.
Creating GUIDs should never be deterministic.. ?
For debugging it can be usefull to have deterministic behaviour. But that
was not the point. The point was, that a call to randomize "disrupts" the
current state of the random generator. That means that if you use random
outside guid creation, creating a guid can have unintended side effects on
your random generation.
I agree it is nitpicking, but strictly speaking, it is a bad idea to
automatically initialize the random generator.
Daniël
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