Following up on Ian's post. It is generally a good idea to go to the playground <https://play.golang.org/> and make a minimal working "program" to demonstrate your question before posting. In doing so you would have discovered that the zero value of a rand.Rand can not be used, and will panic.
Also, a tip. You can go to the docs for NewSource at https://golang.org/pkg/math/rand/#NewSource, then click on the "NewSource" link, and get to the source code at https://golang.org/src/math/rand/rand.go?s=1614:1647#L34, which may be informative. On Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 2:48:27 PM UTC-4, Liam wrote: > > Could anyone clarify the difference between these two? > > r := rand.New(rand.NewSource(...)) > > var r rand.Rand; r.Seed(...) > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
