Re: [boost] [random] Quantization effects in generating floating point values

Subject: Re: [boost] [random] Quantization effects in generating floating point values
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-03-05 13:37:53

AMDG

On 03/05/2015 11:01 AM, John Maddock wrote:
>> <aside>
>> You're using the old interface to uniform_01 here,
>> which is deprecated because it is inconsistent
>> with the rest of the distributions.
>> </aside>
> 
> Understood.  However there's nothing in the docs to say it's deprecated.
> 

Nothing in the documentation indicates that
this works at all.

> In any case I could have picked any real-valued distribution for the
> example.
>>
>> It's called generate_canonical.
> Ah, good.
> 
> However, I don't see it in the docs anywhere?
> 
> Ah... it's not listed in the docs Jamfile so it's not built in.  My
> guess is that no one else has noticed it either?
>

Oops.  I even wrote a doxygen comment.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe