On Jun 8, 2006, at 6:36 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
Perhaps there is something weird about what the random() function
returns, until it is put into a variable?
The last I look, an array element will retain the inner numerical
nature of a value and I assume random() returns something like that.
However, a key is always a string and the number is converted to a
numeral. Sometimes that can be a problem, but Geoff's listing should
have exposed that.
I suspect the problem is not in random() per se. This is very
similar to the recent base64 problem. They may be unrelated, but I
suspect a common bug or, more likely, a common theme. It seems to
have something to do with nested expressions. It may be that calling
a functions messes up a parameter of the outside function.
In any case, this is core and, to me, scary!
(BTW, I noticed that getting the randomSeed gets what it was last set
to, not the current value. That is perhaps a security concern. I
don't think it was that way back in 2.1 when I figured out how it was
initialized then.)
This is unrelated to the problem of too small of a random() parameter
for sorting.
Whose BZ is this?
Dar Scott
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