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I just do not know enough about the D libraries to figure out what is wrong. I know it is a case of type mismatch. The example appears on the Mir-Random page as listed under DUB:
https://code.dlang.org/packages/mir-random
The code looks like this:
void main()
{
import mir.random;
import mir.random.variable: normalVar;
import mir.random.algorithm: randomSlice;
// Engines are allocated on stack or global
auto rng = Random(unpredictableSeed);
auto sample = rng.randomSlice(normalVar, 10);
import std.stdio;
sample[rng.randIndex($)].writeln;
}
This is the error I am seeing (I slapped the sample code into another program that flips a coin... It compiles file without the sample code):
source\flipcoin.d(39,20): Error: constructor `std.random.MersenneTwisterEngine!(uint, 32LU, 624LU, 397LU, 31LU, 2567483615u, 11LU, 4294967295u, 7LU, 2636928640u, 15LU, 4022730752u, 18LU, 1812433253u).MersenneTwisterEngine.this(uint value)` is not callable using argument types `(ulong)`
source\flipcoin.d(39,20): cannot pass argument `unpredictableSeed()` of type `ulong` to parameter `uint value`
Obviously it is a type mismatch - I have tried using to!uint to convert the result from unpredictableSeed to a type that will match - but that just causes more errors.
Thank you in advance.
