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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu>
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Subject: Re: Random numbers in tasks
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 20:24:00 -0600
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On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 21:05:41 +0300, Papastefanos Serafeim wrote:

> There is a small problem in that solution, I cannot just declare the
> generator in the task type: There is a function in a different package
> that is used to return a random number in a given range and that
> function is used at other places too...

If the function accepts a generator as an argument then David's suggestion
will still work correctly.

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Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas