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Ole Ersoy commented on MATH-1307:
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Suggesting BaseGenerator for the name. It might be good to have a naming
convention that works across the board. RealVector is an abstract class, but
leaves Abstract out of the name, however AbstractRealMatrix does not...
> Create a base class for all RNGs
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> Key: MATH-1307
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-1307
> Project: Commons Math
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Gilles
> Assignee: Gilles
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: api, inheritance
> Fix For: 4.0
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> Attachments: BaseAbstractRandomGenerator.java
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> I proposed to create a base class which the existing abstract classes
> {{AbstractRandomGenerator}} and {{BitsStreamGenerator}} will extend.
> This would allow to define {{nextBytes(byte[])}} at the base class level.
> The code for that method is almost identical in the two hierarchies: they
> only differ in a call to either {{nextInt()}} or {{next(32)}} respectively;
> the latter is however the same as the former, in disguise, and is not subject
> to change given the type of return value.
> As a corollary, the new base class can be the unique place where to add
> utilities such as the one proposed in MATH-1306.
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