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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:44:28 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] RNG fixes
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On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 at 18:45 Fleshgrinder <php@fleshgrinder.com> wrote:

> Why do we need so many functions to get a random int anyways if we now
> have random_int()? I would like to see all of them deprecated and
> removed in PHP 8.0.


Lets see if others support this option. (I'm not even sure I do right now)


> I do not see a problem to change array_rand(), array_shuffle(), nor
> str_shuffle() since their output should be random anyways.
>

Right now a call to srand() with a given seed will make these functions
return the same sequence of outputs for a particular set of inputs. This
behaviour is fine and sometimes even desirable. The changes in this RFC
will change those outputs, they will still be controllable with srand()
though

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