range vs sample semantics about cljx-sampling HOT 2 CLOSED

Thanks!

But providing a seed to random/next-int! rather than a mutable generator doesn't make much sense to me. For a given seed we'd always end up generating the same number. Instead random/next-int could return both a random number and a new seed for the next call, but using that sounds awkward to me.

A seed could be nice, however, if it were used to generate an entire sequence of random numbers:

(defn rand-ints
  "Generates an infinite seq of integers from [minimum, maximum)."
  [minimum maximum & {:keys [seed]}]
  (let [rng (random/create (or seed (rand)))
        diff (- maximum minimum)]
    (repeatedly #(+ minimum (random/next-int! rng diff)))))

Is that closer to what you were thinking?

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oh, your're right!

rand-ints is really nice!

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