On Mon 23 Jan 2012 14:06, Mike Gran <spk...@yahoo.com> writes: >> From: Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> >>> (seed->random-state (current-time)) seems to be a common idiom that >>> you would end up breaking. >> >>This is a common idiom that is worth deprecating. Mark's new functions >>that seed the random state from /dev/urandom are much better. > > Are you suggesting that you'll break the API in the hope that when people's > code stops working, they'll reread the manual and notice that > random-state-from-platform exists? > > It seems a rather unfriendly way to accomplish that task.
That would indeed be a mean thing to do! It's not what I'm suggesting though. Deprecation means causing Guile to emit warnings, at compile-time or at runtime, indicating that a particular interface will go away at some point, and noting the interface that should be used instead. I think it's fairly helpful, actually, but if you have any suggestions for how it could be improved, they are much welcome. Regards, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
