Re: PLEASE READ: use of random

[Nelson Minar]

>d) I also have the following question for y'all regarding PMMLCG:
>It has been an (implicit or explicit?) promise for the generators (except
>SWB) that you could save the latest output, and later feed it to the
>generator as a seed, and get the *same* sequence generated as if you had
>let it run on in the first place.

It was? It shouldn't be. Some generators have a lot of state - a lot
more than one 32 bit number.

If you want to store the state of a generator and recover it later, it
should be done via the same persistent object support the rest of the
system has.

OTOH, if I understand your change to PMMLCG right, it probably doesn't
make any difference.