RE: [sv-ec] Question about seeding $urandom

This is legal.  For the history, all the way back to 3.1a, see

     http://www.eda-stds.org/sv/sv-champions/hm/0554.html

-- Brad

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From: owner-sv-ec@eda.org [owner-sv-ec@eda.org] On Behalf Of Ryan, Ray [Ray_Ryan@mentor.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:25 AM
To: Jonathan Bromley
Cc: owner-sv-ec@eda.org; sv-ec@eda.org
Subject: RE: [sv-ec] Question about seeding $urandom

I agree that

        process::self().srandom(seed)

is NOT legal (because this uses a return result as a prefix).

This would be more apparent if the empty paren's weren't
optional on function calls.

- Ray

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sv-ec@server.eda.org
> [mailto:owner-sv-ec@server.eda.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bromley
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:19 AM
> To: Cliff Cummings
> Cc: owner-sv-ec@server.eda.org; sv-ec@server.eda.org
> Subject: RE: [sv-ec] Question about seeding $urandom
>
> > [Cliff] found another working example of what I needed:
> >
> > process::self.srandom(seed);
>
> Yikes!  Is this legal?  I didn't think we could use a method
> return result as the prefix to a .method() call.
> Are the rules subtly bent for static methods?
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