On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 10:30:26 PM UTC, Karsten Schmidt wrote:
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> FWIW dynvars are quite a common solution to these kind of scenarios:
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And that's an excellent solution. However, I still think that it's a
problem that shouldn't need solving in the first place - the basic library
sho
On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 8:45:00 PM UTC, miner wrote:
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> You should treat rand and friends like i/o. Don't bury them deep in your
> code. Write your pure functions so that they take a seed value (or
> sequence).
This is one approach to by-passing clojure's randoms, yes. (To be hone
Ok: first of all, Clojure has outstandingly the best core library I've
seen. I am awed by how wonderfully the protocol approach makes data
structures, and the good taste applied to getting an API that's reasonably
minimal and wonderfully complete. I've not posted before because I've had
nothing
