wouldn´t it be more interesting/useful to incorporate a [date] object into vanilla pd, from which it would be trivial to generate unique seeds, but which also could be used in (many) other contexts?
hans > Am 31.05.2018 um 19:21 schrieb Dan Wilcox <danomat...@gmail.com>: > > It would relatively easy to add a right outlet to [random]. Another option > might be an explicit [seed] object which could give you further control or > perhaps some creation flags for [random] as well. > >>> you still have control on the seed... just seed it >> >> no because you need to add an extra outlet to [random] and prints out the >> seed value. >> >>> or even seed it with the system time on creation? >> >> if one adds now this behaviour one need to put a flag for backward >> compatibility. >> >>> what if [seed( without argument would take the current system time? >> >> this could be an idea but one need the second outlet. >> >> ciao >> -Marco Matteo Markidis > > -------- > Dan Wilcox > @danomatika > danomatika.com > robotcowboy.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
