[swift-evolution] 'Random' Improvements

Peter Dillinger Peter.Dillinger at synopsys.com
Wed Apr 5 12:00:03 CDT 2017


Haha:

> https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170227/033482.html
>
> In general, I’d recommend against providing a default that we know won’t meet everyone’s needs,
> as randomness can have security properties.

The same could be said of Hashable and even String concatenation, and bad randomness isn't even in the OWAP Top 10 (by my reading).

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