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Re: Back to emacsclient/server
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Back to emacsclient/server |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:25:32 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I don't think repeatability is realistic within Emacs, because a Lisp
> function cannot have any control over other functions that might have called
> random before it. If repeatability is desired, then we need a function to
> set the random seed to a known value, so Lisp code that requires
> repeatability can call it at the start of its psuedorandom number
> generation. As far as I can tell, no such function exists.
Agreed. A quick "grep '(random t)' **/*.el" shows that many packages freely
use (random t). I think Emacs should do a (random t) at startup.
Stefan
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, (continued)
Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/23
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/10/23
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/23
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/10/24
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/10/26
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/10/27
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Jason Rumney, 2006/10/27
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/10/27
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/10/27
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Slawomir Nowaczyk, 2006/10/27
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/27
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/10/27
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/28
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/29
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/10/30
Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/28
Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/10/28