Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   Let me as you the reverse question: Why should we *not* offer large
> > seeds? Why limit the usability of the RNGs for no good reason?

> It disturbs the syntax of the seed() call that exists even more. So it's 
> mostly a matter that you already addressed: the syntax is ugly.

  But it's not like you would notice if you don't care about the extra
long seeds. If you are content with the 32-bit seeds, you can use seed()
in the exact same way as now. The long seeds would just be an extra which
doesn't disturb the currently existing syntax.

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                                                          - Warp

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