Draft #4 comments Peter McGoron (19 Jun 2026 17:36 UTC)
Draft #4 comments Peter McGoron (19 Jun 2026 17:39 UTC)
Draft #4 comments Peter McGoron (19 Jun 2026 17:50 UTC)
Re: Draft #4 comments Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (21 Jun 2026 17:20 UTC)
Re: Draft #4 comments Peter McGoron (21 Jun 2026 18:03 UTC)
Re: Draft #4 comments Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (21 Jun 2026 18:47 UTC)
Re: Draft #4 comments Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (22 Jun 2026 18:48 UTC)

Re: Draft #4 comments Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe 21 Jun 2026 18:47 UTC

On 2026-06-21 14:01 -0400, Peter McGoron wrote:
> On 6/21/26 13:20, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe wrote:
> > I think these are useful, but slightly outside of SRFI 271's scope.
> > There is room for further random-port SRFIs.
>
> The SRFI lacks a base-case that one can use to seed random ports
> from known binary data. ChaCha20 is the base case in my hypothetical
> library, while `trivial` is a base case that is also much simpler.
> The only real use of `trivial` is seeding other random ports, which
> is why it should be in this SRFI, which is the one that defines
> random ports and how random ports can seed other ports.

I see your point.  Let me give it a little more thought.

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Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe  <xxxxxx@sigwinch.xyz>