[PHP6] Merging rand and mt_rand()

From: Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:45:24 +0000
Subject: [PHP6] Merging rand and mt_rand()
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Hello internals,

there has already been a lot of talk about improving secure random number generation for PHP6. One
thing I'd like to improve as well, would be non-secure random number generation. Here is not so
much security at stake but ease of use.

The obvious solution, would be to rename mt_rand to rand and make rand an alias. (The same for the
supporting functions mt_srand and mt_getrandmax).

What I'm missing is the history. What was the reason to keep the separate? Am I missing
something?

Best regards
Rouven


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