From: XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes (Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ** Random error **
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 22:07:42 GMT
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El día Sun, 23 May 1999 15:15:27 -0400, Sean <sproctor AT enter DOT net>
escribió:

>> The only reason is portability: `rand' is ANSI while `random' is not.
>> Most DOS/Windows compilers don't provide `random' at all, while `rand'
>> is always there.
>
>Why use random() at all if it does exactly the same thing?

random is usually better.

Regards,
GUILLE
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Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes (ya sabes :-)