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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] RNG fixes
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> I haven't been following this thread, just jumping in to comment on this
> point. My suggestion to deprecate rand() was motivated by the fact that
> rand() produces extremely low quality random numbers on Windows, while at

Why not fix it then?

> the same time having the name people are most likely to try first if they
> want to have a random number. It's a bad state of things if there's a
> rand() and an mt_rand() function and the latter is preferable in *all*
> situations, while the former is more likely to be used. However, this
> concern is completely alleviated by aliasing rand() to mt_rand(). If we do

Exactly, one of the ways. If mt_rand for some (unknown to me) reason is
not good enough, I'm sure we can find a better one.

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Stas Malyshev
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