[PD] Random

[Dan Wilcox]

I was thinking it would just return the posix date via outlets or a list. Why would Pd need to save the previous date?

> On May 31, 2018, at 1:11 PM, Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
> Warning:  [date] won't work so well on Raspberry Pi startup scripts (no
> way to save date from boot to boot).
> 
> I think the best vanilla way on linux or mac is to read /dev/random into
> an array using soundfiler.
> 
> cheers
> Miller
> 
> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 01:00:40PM -0500, Dan Wilcox wrote:
>> Yeah. I could use it as [date] is the only reason I have zexy installed right now.
>> 
>>> On May 31, 2018, at 12:56 PM, hans w. koch <hansw.koch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> wouldn´t it be more interesting/useful to incorporate a [date] object into vanilla pd, from which it would be trivial to generate unique seeds, but which also could be used in (many) other contexts?
>>> 
>>> hans
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Am 31.05.2018 um 19:21 schrieb Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> It would relatively easy to add a right outlet to [random]. Another option might be an explicit [seed] object which could give you further control or perhaps some creation flags for [random] as well.
>>>> 
>>>>>> you still have control on the seed... just seed it
>>>>> 
>>>>> no because you need to add an extra outlet to [random] and prints out the
>>>>> seed value.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> or even seed it with the system time on creation?
>>>>> 
>>>>> if one adds now this behaviour one need to put a flag for backward
>>>>> compatibility.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> what if [seed( without argument would take the current system time?
>>>>> 
>>>>> this could be an idea but one need the second outlet.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ciao
>>>>> -Marco Matteo Markidis
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