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Personally, I think we do not need this trait and that it's sufficient to explain the reproducibility properties in docs. |
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Personally I don't either. I'm also not wildly keen on adding it. It does help clarify what |
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My first thought was also that I do not like this. But on second thought the cost is very low, because it increases the API only by a very small amount and it has a good chance that everyone who cares about reproducibility will do the right thing without reading the docs too closely. So I am in favor, but no strong opinion |
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Summary
Motivation
Clarify that
SeedableRngdoes not imply reproducibility and what RNGs do have this property.Details
I'm somewhat loathe to do this since in part, reproducibility is a special property that
StdRngandSmallRngopt out of. On the other hand, this is a property not implied by the API or the semver model.So does this form of formal documentation make sense?
Obviously this PR is incomplete: the ChaCha and Pcg RNGs in this repo should implement the trait, and also
StepRngand most of therngsrepo.