From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: random once but not twice
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 23:26:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bmk85u6b.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3SE_JV0BHY55vjgqSeDeM5vTOB=d1UH_Ok-yn0WBZv4Zg@mail.gmail.com>
Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> The subshell in the second function ensures
> that the RANDOM state in the parent shell
> stays the same.
But why doesn't the next invocation produce
a new value? As in
random-test () {
repeat 10 echo $RANDOM
}
$ random-test
9235
18141
28176
10397
14564
21514
2335
31921
7989
8201
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-11 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-11 18:57 Emanuel Berg
2017-11-11 21:52 ` Mikael Magnusson
2017-11-11 22:26 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2017-11-11 22:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-11 22:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-12 19:08 ` Peter Stephenson
2017-11-12 20:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-12 20:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-11-12 20:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-13 0:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-13 4:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-11-13 5:07 ` Emanuel Berg
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