Re: math.randomseed() is completely broken on Lua 5.1.5 on Mac os x

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Wednesday, September 11, 2013, Dirk Laurie  wrote:
> 2013/9/10 Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com>:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 2013/9/10 Marek Majkowski <marek@popcount.org>:
> >> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >> 2013/9/10 Marek Majkowski <marek@popcount.org>:
> >> >>
> >> >> There's a nice discussion on:
> >> >>
> >> >> <http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-03/msg00564.html>
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for the link.  Shouldn't it be mentioned in the bugs page?
> >> >
> >> > http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.5
> >>
> >> It's not a Lua bug. Lua 5.1.5 on e.g. Linux does not have the bug.
> >> Lua 5.2.x discards the first value when you call randomseed, but
> >> one must think of that as a workaround to compensate for imperfect
> >> C libraries.
> >>
> >
> > Still seems like "Bugs in external libraries that affect Lua's behaviour"
> > would be a good section to have on a bug list page as well, so people aren't
> > tripping over them.
>
> Or simply encourage people to try Google first.
>
> I got that link to LHF's 2007 post by Googling on something like "first number
> after randomseed not random". The temptation to put in a LMGTFY link as
> reply was strong, but my New Year's resolution for 2013 was to stop
> posting LMGTFY replies. I'll start using them again next year. :-)

Dirk,

What is on earth is LMGTFY? 

Just some red meat for you. :)

-Andrew