Idea for an RFC for a more powerful (and backward compatible) API of random number generator functions.
The following psaudocode is self explained (hopfully) const RAND_ALGO_LIBC const RAND_ALGO_MERSENNE_TWISTER const RAND_ALGO_OPENSSL const RAND_ALGO_GMP ... // changed functions (added optional $algo argument) void srand($seed = null, $algo = rand_algo_default()) int rand($min = 0, $max = getrandmax(), $algo = rand_algo_default()) mixed array_rand(array $input, $num_req = 1, $algo = rand_algo_default()) bool shuffle(array &$array, $algo = rand_algo_default()) string str_shuffle(string $str, $algo = rand_algo_default()) // new functions // set/get the default algo int rand_algo_default($algo = null) // get a list of available algos array rand_algo_list() // generate random $length bytes string str_rand($length = 1, $algo = rand_algo_default()) // deprecate functions mt_srand() mt_rand() mt_getrandmax() openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() gmp_random() What do you think? -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
