On 11.12.22 23:22, Peter P. wrote:
Hi Thomas,
* Thomas Mayer <[email protected]> [2022-12-11 21:20]:
[...]
My guess is, that most users probably expect at least different seed values
every time.
Maybe the help file should explicitely state the behaviour or a different
way for deriving the initial seed should be used, e.g. taking the local
time. Or a better PRNG could be used as well.
If we take the solution to initialize [random] with a different seed each
time, an explanation on how to revert to the old behaviour of a seed value
of 1489853723 should be mentioned in the help.
I think the main thing to worry about is if any of the patches written
in the last 20+ years will stop working in the way intended by a such a
modification.
I loosely remember that someone somewhen showed how to get a different
seed every time using an abstraction. If such a solution exists in
vanilla Pd, it could be added as a solution to the docs perhaps?
if backwards-compatibility is the main factor, then I will create a pull
request with an update to the help file and explain a way to generate a
good seed value with Pd vanilla, where I actually do not have a good
idea for now, because I am using [time] from zexy right now.
Thanks,
Thomas
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