[plt-scheme] A curious evaluation order (?) bug

Doug Williams m.douglas.williams at gmail.com
Sun Dec 30 17:40:52 EST 2007


Well, at least I didn't succumb to the temptation to port my own random
source generator from Common Lisp over to add to the confusion.

On Dec 30, 2007 3:32 PM, Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 30, 2007 4:54 PM, Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the response.  I was setting random-seed to a fixed value
> > before each call.  This wasn't show in the code I excerpted.  The rest
> > of your email suggests random-seed is irrelevant.  I'm just about to
> > look at this problem again, so hopefully I'll get it sorted out soon.
> > I'll report back.
>
> With your advice I got it working.  Regarding the issue with the
> random sources, the blame is squarely mine for not reading the
> documentation.  Unifying the random number generators would be nice,
> however.
>
> N.
>
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