On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:40:48PM +1100, Tim Robbins wrote: > I disagree. It's safe to use rand() in games and in certain kinds of > simulations when you don't care that the distribution isn't quite > uniform,
Safe, maybe. But I think it still shouldn't be used. See my posting of two years ago: <URL: http://groups.google.com/groups?&selm=97b83t%2414q3%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=1 > BTW, I don't care if linking a program with rand() gives an obnoxious warning or not. Just pointing out that rand() is less useful than it might seem. Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.celabo.org/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos [EMAIL PROTECTED] . [EMAIL PROTECTED] . [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
