> > Now it works. But WHY? > > Because that's the way random number generators works. They're > not > random at all, they generate completely predictable number > sequences > from a "seed": each time you use the same seed, you get the exact > same > sequence. In your case, you used os.time() as a seed, which is an > integral number of seconds elapsed since some fixed date, and the > fact > you saw the same number ten times simply means your code was ran > ten > times within the same second.
I know this and I have triggerd this by hand. So there is a lot of time between. I have purged files between every run and I got the same result if I wait 1 second, 1 minute or 1 day. Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
