Re: [boost] [random] Major update

Subject: Re: [boost] [random] Major update
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-18 15:31:18

AMDG

On 03/17/2011 04:50 PM, Mostafa wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:47:36 -0700, Steven Watanabe 
> <watanabesj_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> * Renaming:
>>   - Whenever I renamed a class, I provided a wrapper
>>     with the old name.  There are also using declarations
>>     in namespace boost for everything that I moved.
>>   - The names of a few accessors in the distributions
>>     changed.  I left both the old and the new names in place.
>
> Are you/is there a way to notify, preferably at compile time, that 
> said wrappers and old names are deprecated or are going to be deprecated?

Good point.  If I wrap them in #ifndef,
BOOST_RANDOM_NO_DEPRECATED, I can
use it hide them from doxygen as well.

>> A few thing I know about, but haven't changed:
>> * lagged_fibonacci comparison is not technically
>>   correct.  It's possible for operator== to return
>>   false in some cases where the generators will
>>   actually produce identical (infinite) sequences.
>>   The probability that this will ever actually happen
>>   is very small.  (As in 2^{-20000} for lagged_fibonacci607)
>
> Will this also be noted in the documentation?

No.  It's not that hard to fix.  I just made it
a low priority because it's so unlikely to make
a difference.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe