Yeah, I can see that Craig.
Joe- I see. Coming from C++ and PHP I just figured it was like those
two, where it started with it being a required bit and later moved to
the optional realm. Fun little factoid, and thank you for enlightening me.
Later,
Fargo
Craig A. Finseth wrote:
...
I imagine that the case is similar to PHP, where they moved to a self
seeding model later, but kept the manual seed function to avoid breaking
older applications and to allow you room to experiment.
...
Self-seeding is good because it's hard to come up with a quick and
easy seed (time, process ID, and that ilk aren't the best).
Having an explicit seed is important when debugging so that you can
get reproducability!
Craig
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