Re: A better rand() for Win32

Thanks for contributing an interesting piece of code to the Monastery Catacombs! I will enjoy taking it apart to analyze what makes it tick!!! Education is a wonderful thing...

As for the discussion which ensued from the 1st post...I am a casual observer! It started getting deep for a while...but I persevered... I will say this, I am NOT a MS fan at all, and would NOT be willing to take a security hit for a PRNG!!! No matter HOW good it is!!!

Thanks again...

ki6jux

ps...Why did you use a Perl reserved word "die" as a variable name???...

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Re^2: A better rand() for Win32 by bitshiftleft (Sexton) on Oct 04, 2007 at 20:32 UTC
Die is singular to dice. When you roll one dice you are rolling one die !!! naturally it has nothing to do with the perl die function. It wasn't in mind when I coded it that way. I could have used $singledie instead of $die to avoid confusion.	[reply]
Re^2: A better rand() for Win32 by pKai (Priest) on Sep 22, 2007 at 10:20 UTC
die Last time I looked there where no reserved variable names containing lower case letters in Perl.	[reply]
Re^3: A better rand() for Win32 by pmonk4ever (Friar) on Oct 01, 2007 at 23:05 UTC
Ok, then I thought "die" was a reserved word, as in 'open <FILE> or die "you dummy! there is no file by that name: $FILE" ' I am new at this, so please bear with me. Thank you. ki6jux "No trees were harmed in the creation of this node. However, a rather large number of electrons were somewhat inconvenienced."	[reply]