I'm afraid I don't understand the fix... and how it
seems to affect the historical behaviour of srand()/rand().
How does it address the understanding that if I use
srand(28), I will get exactly the same sequence of
numbers srand(28) produced yesterday, last week,
last year?
I have worked with programs that depend on exactly
that behavior.
That is, given the same input seed - I expect
to see the same "random" sequence again.
This requirement would seem to indicate that changing
srand()/rand() isn't really possible... And, also,
I believe, why random() was introduced...
Please, oh please, don't change that behavior in
srand()/rand().
- Dave Rivers -
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