Opened 10 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#6949 closed Bugs (wontfix)
bernoulli_distribution not compatible with C++11 standard
| Reported by: | Owned by: | No-Maintainer | |
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| Milestone: | To Be Determined | Component: | random |
| Version: | Boost 1.49.0 | Severity: | Problem |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
The bernoulli_distribution in Boost.Random is a template class with a meaningless template parameter double while it returns always bool as it should be.
The C++11 standard says that bernoulli_distribution shall not be a template class (26.5.8.3.1)
Though it is not really a bug of Boost.Random. However it would be better if it behaves the same as in C++11 since most part of Boost.Random can already be used as a replacement of C++11 <random> when it is not available with the compiler. And library authors use Boost as a reliable fallback when using such C++11 library features
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I've thought about this for a while, and although I would probably have changed it to match std::bernoulli_distribution if I had caught it when doing the C++11 update for Boost.Random, I don't think it's worth introducing a breaking change for at this point.