On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 10:55:54AM -0500, _brian_d_foy wrote: > i don't think you should use Monte Carlo since you really aren't > sinmulating a system. Monte Carlo simulations pick sensible random > values from a defined frequency distribution and apply those to > part of a system. your module would hopefully pick unsensible values > too, and i don't think you'll need the frequency distribution.
Good point. It basically makes it easy to re-run rand() with the same seed. It's up to the user to decide how to do sensible things with the output of rand(). > i also don't think most people will know what "Monte Carlo" means. > how about Test::RandomData or some such? Test::Randomize ? Nicholas Clark -- Brainfuck better than perl? http://www.perl.org/advocacy/spoofathon/
