Among other things, Warp saw fit to write:

> 3) Use an alternative function for long seeds. For example:
> 
>      #declare S = longseed(2, 1, 2, 3, 4);
> 
> [...]
> 
> 4) Create an entirely new syntax for specifying a group of values. This,
>    however, would be laborious and should preferably be avoided.

Somewhere between 3 and 4:

3.5) Create a sort of "concatenate numbers" function, that would allow
really large numbers, maybe with and arbitrary number of parameters. If the
function is named "numconcat":

seed(1234)   // current
seed(1234,1) // same as above
seed(1234,2) // new RNG with small seed
seed(numconcat(1234,5678,90),2) // new RNG with large seed

The function numconcat need not be a "real" concatenation, i.e., there's no
reason why numconcat(1234,5678,90)=1234567890, it should just create a
large number out of smaller ones.

Hmm... maybe that's what option 4 meant from the beginning, though.

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