[Swift-devel] random seed generator?

[Mihael Hategan]

I was trying:
string a;
a = random();

But for some reason this translates into random(a).

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 11:26 -0500, Veronika V. Nefedova wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know I've raised this question before and I had received several 
> suggestions, but I am wondering what is the consensus on generating the 
> random seed in swift? I needed it for MolDyn workflow (had to do some hacks 
> for them), and I need it for the lqcd workflow too.
> For lqcd I need to change the random seed inside the input file at every 
> loop step. What is the best way to proceed? I see a couple of options:
> 
> 1. have an external program generate the random seed and then call it from 
> swift.
> 2. Have swift somehow generate the random seed
> 
> I am curious if option 2 is possible ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nika
> 
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