bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>> I don't see how having to memorize four names instead of one is necessarily
>> awesome and beautiful. Besides uniform() renders "random" redundant.
>> Hardly a pinnacle of good API design
>
> You never need this, so it's over-generalized, and it's also ugly to see and
> noisy too:
> uniform!("(]")(rng, a, b);
My pages of code implementing it in Python would like to disagree with
you on that. So would the safety science guys I write simulation and
analysis code for.
Then again "I never need this" isn't as convincing an argument. :)
> ...
>
> While we are discussing Phobos, I'd also like to have a lazy prime generator,
> prime tests a binomial, etc. Such things are useful in many programs (you can
> find them all in my dlibs, but that hyperfast lazy prime generator is GNU,
> unfortunately).
Prime test a binomial? I never need this, so it's not necessary.
> Bye,
> bearophile
-- Daniel
