Greetings, Steve Kargl! >> >> * gfortran's example for random_see should be change to not use >> >> system_clock for the random seed. >> > >> >I disagree. The example is just that a short example >> >that demonstrates how to use random_seed. Anyone using >> >that example in his/her code without testing the results >> >in his/her potentially broken environment should not be >> >programming. >> >> That is unfair. Few scientists will know that system clocks are >> an iffy aspect of a programming language, especially as there are >> no fundamental reasons that should be the case.
> This has nothing to do with the iffy-ness of system clocks. My > disagreemnet is predicated on the stupidity of using a 10 line > example subroutine without actually inspecting what it does on > whatever OS that one chooses to use. Perhaps, my expectations > for the IQ of scientists is too high. Are you suggesting that > every code snippet in the manual should contain a cautionary > comment of the form: No, I expect a code snippet in manual to produce sensible, reliable and predictable results across the board, especially for such generic cases. > ! > ! This is only an example. Use with extreme caution. > ! -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 12.04.2013, <06:29> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
