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On Sunday, 25 December 2022 at 14:47:49 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
>Just in case if you are not joking, caching a certain amount of dice rolls to reuse them later in a circular fashion would make a bad quality pseudorandom number generator (a slightly upgraded version of the xkcd joke). Don't do this.
Naturally. I was joking, and I was also describing the erroneous behavior of the parser of the language I was writing; which was to substitute/cache a randomly generated number into a concrete syntax tree when interpreted, instead of making actual calls to the RNG at runtime, which is the correct (now current) behavior. The joke was that I automated the manual dice-rolling part to arrive more efficiently at the incorrect solution.