On Friday 26 April 2013 20:33:36 Graydon Hoare wrote: > On 26/04/2013 6:47 PM, Huon Wilson wrote: > > I'm proposing creating std::rand with these, possibly with a few extra > > traits e.g. "RandomDistribution". For reference the C++ stdlib > > contains a whole pile of distributions > > (http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/random/), as does the Python > > stdlib. (Is this wiki-bikeshed worthy?) > > Again, this feels like something where the library process of surveying, > documenting and distilling might shed some light. I believe the recent > work from C++11 is nearly state of the art, but I wouldn't be surprised > if other languages have important contributions to the design space to > be aware of also.
Haven't had the chance to use the C++11 random library yet, but it looks good. Also worth mentioning is the GSL library, which despite its age is (AFAIAA) well regarded and very extensive: https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/ _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
