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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] rand(), mt_rand() and limits
From: leight@gmail.com (Leigh)

On 11 January 2015 at 22:12, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>
>   * Get rid of rand(), srand() and getrandmax()
>   * Rename mt_rand(), mt_srand() and mt_getrandmax() to rand(), srand(), and getrandmax() but add mt_* aliases for backwards-compatibility

Also, this breaks all code currently using rand() and srand(), as the
LCG and MT produce a different sequence of numbers for the same seed.
I can't judge how widely this is used, I don't expect it to be a lot,
but it's still something that has to be considered.