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Re: Back to emacsclient/server
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Back to emacsclient/server |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:38:38 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:
> On 10/28/06, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Let's make (random 'random) generate a new seed, use it, then restore
>> the old one, so that it has no effect on the sequence. This is a much
>> smaller change than adding a means to read and set the random seed.
> But I think that's all unnecessary right now. As others have pointed
> out, several packages already do initialize the random seed for
> trivial reasons; I see no harm in doing the same in server.el. If your
> proposal (or any variant) is ever implemented, fixing server.el is a
> one-line change.
I agree. I see no harm in doing (random t) in server.el.
If someone really want repeatable output from random, we _do_ need
at way to set the seed, e.g. (random &optional n seed)
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, (continued)
- 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
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Richard Stallman, 2006/10/30
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- Re: Back to emacsclient/server, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/10/27