Well that is interesting. One of my first involvements with CM was suggesting just this. The suggestion was roundly shouted down. The Mikkel suggested it. It was declined.
I am glad that you finally succeeded. On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Gilles Sadowski < gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: > > > > Another example comes from the random distributions. The current design > > separates generating values from evaluating CDF's even though users think > of > > those as operations on the same object. > > I remember that one round of this discussion happened when I started to > contribute to CM. And I had been in favour of providing an interface to > generated data inside the distribution objects. This led to a "sample" > method being available in all those objects. Is it still not satisfactory? >
