David Rowley wrote:
> At the moment I feel the patch is a bit half done. I really think that
> since the gaussian and exponential stuff was added in commit ed802e7d, that
> this should now be changed so that we have functions like random(),
> erandom() and grandom() and the way to use this becomes:
>
> \set name random(1,10)
> \set name erandom(1,10)
>
> And we completely pull out the new \\setrandom additions added in that
> commit.
Sounds good to me. The current syntax is rather messy IMV, and
presumably a function-based syntax might be better.
> We'd likely keep \\setrandom name 1 10 for backwards compatibility.
Yep.
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