On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >That makes sense. Allowing "rand" would be nice too.
>
> You can now - it's part of :base_math.
Oh, ok. I saw it's not included in :base_core despite being in :base_math,
but didn't realize explicitly including :base_math would bring it back.
> What we should do, however, is disallow is calling srand, since pg goes
> to quite a bit of trouble to seed the PRNG.
That sounds reasonable.
Jon
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