Re: exposing seed_random to lisp?

[joakim]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> On 03/16/2011 07:17 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I don't see why not.
>
> I see one gotcha: a seed that is an Emacs fixnum
> typically does not contain enough entropy to cover
> all the possible seeds that seed_random can accept.
> One possible workaround is to have the seed be a list
> of fixnums rather than just a single fixnum.

Good catch. For compatibility with future super Emacsen, the function
could accept different types:
- single fixnum with too little entropy
- list of fixnums
- future bignum

list of fixnums would be my initial attempt.

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Joakim Verona