[erlang-questions] process dictionary, anyone?

[Toby Thain]

On 27-Apr-07, at 5:10 AM, Luke Gorrie wrote:

> ...
> Here is the way I've learned to get a "random enough that the
> programmer can't guess the answer" number:
>
>   {A,B,C} = now(),
>   random:seed(A,B,C),

The potential problems with this are obvious... aren't they?

--T

>   random:uniform(N)
>
> but that's from grep'ing around to see how Tony and Klacke do it.
...