Re: [PATCH 0/1] zsh/random module

[Clinton Bunch <cdbunch@zentaur.org>]

On 4/5/2024 21:41, Clinton Bunch wrote:
> On 3/24/2024 09:11, Clinton Bunch wrote:
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>> I am still working on the test harness.  I'm thinking about using a C 
>> program for analysis of shell output, but no current test harness 
>> does anything like that.  (long double would really be helpful for 
>> larger bounds, 1-20 works, 1-100 causes overflows)
>>
> I'm struggling with a test for this module.  I thought about doing a 
> statistical analysis (chi-square) of output, but I can't get a 
> successful p-value nearly 10% of the time.  I tried doing the same 
> with return values from the base library functions and got similar 
> bias, so it appears I'd just be testing the randomness of the kernel 
> PRNG rather than compilation of code.
>
> Anyone else have any ideas?
>
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>
Another question:  The math function names.

Would something like srandom_int and srandom_float be better to show the 
association with the SRANDOM parameter?

Or maybe call the parameter ZRANDOM with SRANDOM as an alias for Bash 
compatibility?