On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 20:13 Fleshgrinder <p...@fleshgrinder.com> wrote:
> On 6/14/2016 8:56 PM, Christoph Becker wrote: > > Yes, I'm aware of that, and that change isn't an issue for me (except > > maybe that it might happen in a minor version). I was responding to > > Richard (Fleshgrinder) who suggested to remove rand() and mt_rand() > > alltogether, because there is random_int(). > > > > I understood how you mean it. :) > > Call me ignorant but is this required in typical web applications? > Couldn't we move this functionality to PECL? I mean, it is required in > games but other than that. > > Please correct me if that is wrong! > > -- > Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger > > I think as this is a BC break it should require the 2/3 majority. I do support fixing the RNGs though. Have you done any checks on GitHub etc to see how widespread this usage is? I'd like to get some data on that too.
