[swift-evolution] 'Random' Improvements

[Charlie Monroe]

> On Apr 5, 2017, at 7:00 PM, Peter Dillinger via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> 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).

Making some "mistakes" in the past shouldn't encourage to make them in the present.

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