On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: > Bill Baxter wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu >> <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: >>> >>> auto b = uniform!("[]")(rng, byte.min, byte.max); >>> >>> Is this acceptable? >> >> If that's what it took I'd probably try this instead: >> ubyte b = uniform(rng, 0,256); >> >> And then add an explicit cast to ubyte if the compiler didn't like that. >> So no, I don't really think that's good enough. Others may disagree >> about how important a use case this is, though. > > This will indeed work: > > ubyte b = cast(ubyte) uniform(rng, 0,256); > > I just showed the solution involving no cast. So are you ok with that?
No, but if you are then I'll just make my own 1-liner library functions, so it's not a big deal. --bb