Revision as of 17:39, 30 November 2013 edit Isaacl (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 24,674 edits suggest setting flag so random seed is set once during a single module invocation		Revision as of 07:26, 2 December 2013 edit undo Mr. Stradivarius (talk \| contribs) Edit filter managers, Administrators 59,228 edits →Setting random seed: reply Next edit →
Line 1: ==Setting random seed== I suggest setting a flag when the random seed is set, so it can be set just once. I know it won't help with multiple invocations of the module, since the flag won't be preserved, but at least when random numbers are being generated multiple times during a given function call, the risk of repeating the same seed value will be eliminated. [[User:Isaacl\|isaacl]] ([[User talk:Isaacl\|talk]]) 17:39, 30 November 2013 (UTC) :Actually, sometimes generating the same number is necessary, as some wikicode assumes that {{tl\|rand}} generates the same number every time it is called on the same page. (This can now be done with the {{para\|same}} parameter.) But I think you do have a point - it was messy code to call setRandomSeed so many times. I've reworked the module so that it is only called once. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius\|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius\|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 07:26, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

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