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From: Oliver Kiddle <opk@zsh.org>
To: Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@zentaur.org>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] zsh/random module
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:18:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45497-1711581491.091676@9sKB.jDYp.NqUn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e230a1b-1656-4332-9335-a38d956dac80@zentaur.org>

Clinton Bunch wrote:
> On 3/25/2024 18:59, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> > Clinton Bunch wrote:
> >> +startitem()
> >> +vindex(SRANDOM)
> >> +item(tt(SRANDOM)) (
> >> +A random positive 32-bit integer between 0 and 4,294,967,295.  This parameter
> >> +is read-only.
> >> +)
> > It'd be useful to spell-out exactly what the "S" in the name stands for.
> I'm not honestly sure what it stands for, I used it for compatibility 
> with bash.  Possibly 'system'?

Checking the bash 5.1 release notes, you may be right but it isn't clear
from either that or the bash manual. For some reason, I was associating
it with "secure" because the need for good random number generators is
often associated with security.

Before I forget this again, random should be added to the modules array
in Completion/Zsh/Type/_module_math_func so that completion adds its
math functions.

Oliver


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-03-27 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-24 14:11 Clinton Bunch
2024-03-25 23:59 ` Oliver Kiddle
2024-03-26  0:42   ` Clinton Bunch
2024-03-26  1:07     ` Clinton Bunch
2024-03-27 23:18     ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2024-03-27 23:30       ` Clinton Bunch

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