At 08:48 PM 10/11/2001 -0400, Ryan O'Neil wrote:
>I was playing with Parrot and wanted a basic random numbers 
>implementation.  Just in case anyone else wants it too, here are the 
>appropriate diffs and test file.  It seemed logical for rand to return a 
>real number between 0 and 1 instead of having any reliance on 
>RAND_MAX.  Any other ideas?

I'm not 100% sure I want random number generation to be a fundamental part 
of the interpreter. (Though it *is* really appealing...) This sort of thing 
might be better put in the standard library rather than built in as a core 
opcode.

Nifty, though. :)

                                        Dan

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