From pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca  Fri Nov 21 19:32:10 1997
From: pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Gilbert)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:32:10 -0500
Subject: R-alpha: random number generator
References: <199711211745.SAA08103@sophie.ethz.ch>
Message-ID: <97Nov21.143456est.26524@mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca>

>LT> The bottom line is that it would be nice to eventually provide
"power
>LT> users" with more control over the random number generator system.

>maybe the time to think about this, could be now..?
>Proposals?

Maybe there is some subtlty here that I don't understand, but is it not
possible to just add an optional argument to the functions which call
the random number generator, with the default being the current
generator?

Paul Gilbert

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R-alpha: random number generator
Paul Gilbert