Hi Go Kudo, **A possible alternative that is widely used in other programming languages is to limit the interface API to only generating bytes/integers,** and to provide global functions that would use generic random number generator objects (from internal or user-provided code) in their algorithms.
This would also make it easier to use those generators in brand new algorithms that weren't in the initial RFC. (or in algorithms written by users in PHP) This alternative is similar to Java https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Collections.html#shuffle(java.util.List,%20java.util.Random) and https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Random.html and C++ https://www.cplusplus.com/reference/algorithm/shuffle/ where the algorithms accept a random number generator conforming to some interface and Python https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html#random.shuffle ``` interface PRNGInterface { public function random[Signed]Int(): int; // between PHP_INT_MIN and PHP_INT_MAX (4 bytes or 8 bytes) public function randomBytes(int $length): string // $length bytes of raw data // possibly randomByte(): int // between 0 and 255 // public function randomIntInRange(int $min, int $max) // __serialize(), __unserialize() may be provided, but may be counterproductive for classes that wrap /dev/urandom or random_bytes()? } // possibly provide a trait that provides defaults based on abstract function randomInt function whateverprefixornamespace_rand(PRNGInterface $rng, [int $min, int $max]): int {} // If this is intended to be secure, whateverprefix_array_rand may need to avoid the optimizations used by array_rand for sparse arrays function whateverprefixornamespace_array_rand(PRNGInterface $rng, array $array, ...): int {} function whateverprefixornamespace_shuffle(PRNGInterface $rng, array &$array): bool; // alternately might be possible by extending existing global functions with an optional parameter ``` Thanks, - Tyson -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
