From pburns at pburns.seanet.com  Mon Nov 16 17:43:14 2009
From: pburns at pburns.seanet.com (Patrick Burns)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:43:14 +0000
Subject: [Rd] n=1 default for random number generators
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Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 11/16/2009 11:00 AM, Richard Cotton wrote:
>> One tiny thing that would be very nice to have is a default value of 
>> n=1 in
>> the random number generator functions, enabling, e.g., runif() instead of
>> runif(1).  This won't break anyone's existing code and ought to be
>> relatively straightforward to do. 
>> Is there anyone in the core team who would be willing to include this
>> change?
> 
> I doubt it.  Even if you put together the patch (and I didn't see an 
> offer to do so), merging it into the trunk code would take more work 
> than you'd save in several years of typing the "1".
> 
> Duncan Murdoch

In the spirit of sour grapes, the proposed default
might discourage some users from vectorizing their
thinking.



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[Rd] n=1 default for random number generators
Patrick Burns