Re: [MacPerl] random function immune to windows

[Bill Becker]

It is not rediculous to expect a pseudo-random number generator to 
behave differently! I believe that is, indeed what rand() is supposed 
to be. You go in with a consistent seed across all platforms, it 
should return consistent results across same.

As I said before, the original poster (Louis?) should contact the 
people who ported the windoze version of Perl.

At 11:14 -0400 09/11/2003, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
This is not a bug in Microsoft's implementation of rand(), it is a bug in
your expectations.  It's ridiculous to expect rand() to function
identically across all platforms.  That's simply not the point of rand().
If you need consistent "random" numbers, you should implement your own
generator.
Ronald