expaler — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 05:00:04 GMT

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Attached to this comment is a refinement of
<boost/random/random_number_generator.hpp> that requires
only uniform_int instead of variate_generator; furthermore,
in member operator() with parameter n, the uniform_int
object is only recreated if max() != n - 1.
Cromwell Enage

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jmaurer — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 21:07:09 GMT

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Thanks for the bug report.
I've added the reference to the instantiation of
variate_generator.
However, I won't use your wholesale replacement, because it
looks like it's going to fail when the underlying generator
returns "double" values (between 0 and 1, for example). One
of the features of the variate_generator<> is that it
converts appropriately.
Jens Maurer

Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #242: Silent random_number_generator failure.

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