On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 09:21:02AM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote: : It would be nice if rand behaved a bit more sanely in Perl 6. I can : understand the reasoning for making rand 0 produce between 0 and 1, but : that doesn't mean I have to like it.
What makes you think there was any "reasoning" involved? As far as I can recall, it was entirely due to random factors. :-) I suspect there's an argument that [0,0) ought to be considered undef (which would conveniently numerify to 0 with an optional warning). Larry
