Re: trivial random ports for deterministic seeding
Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe 01 Jun 2026 00:14 UTC
On 2026-05-31 12:56 -0400, Peter McGoron wrote:
> I've added a "trivial" random port in my CHICKEN implementation of
> the current draft: <https://codeberg.org/phm/srfi-271-egg>
>
> The trivial random port cyclically repeats an input bytevector. It
> can be used to deterministically seed other random ports, and a
> long-enough bytevector sourced from /dev/random can be used as a
> seed in most cases.
Thank you! I don't know whether these ports belong in SRFI 271.
(What do you think?) They could be described in a short standalone
SRFI.
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Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe <xxxxxx@sigwinch.xyz>
