From: "Eregon (Benoit Daloze)" <noreply@ruby-lang.org>
To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
Subject: [ruby-core:105821] [Ruby master Feature#17351] Deprecate Random::DEFAULT
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 11:02:25 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <redmine.journal-94346.20211027110224.772@ruby-lang.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: redmine.issue-17351.20201127111644.772@ruby-lang.org
Issue #17351 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze).
Just realized, another way to write that roll method (without deprecation) is:
```ruby
def roll rnd = Random
rnd.rand(6)+1
end
```
I also noticed deprecated constants are no longer warned by default as they depend on `Warning[:deprecated]`.
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Feature #17351: Deprecate Random::DEFAULT
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17351#change-94346
* Author: Eregon (Benoit Daloze)
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
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From https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17322#note-11
I think we should deprecate the `Random::DEFAULT` constant, it doesn't make sense anymore and it's longer than using Random class methods (Random.rand) or Kernel instance methods (#rand).
Also, people might expect it to be global.
If users want a Random instance they should just use `Random.new`, not assume there is a global instance in Random::DEFAULT, which is actually rather misleading now (Random::DEFAULT is no longer an instance of Random).
Also note that JRuby & TruffleRuby use a per-thread instance for Kernel#rand, etc, to avoid contention (otherwise it becomes a huge source of contention when threads run in parallel).
Which means on those implementations using Random::DEFAULT was inefficient (extra synchronization).
So for all these reasons I think it's time to deprecate `Random::DEFAULT` and then later remove it (in 3.1?).
I don't think there is any use case for `Random::DEFAULT`, but happy to hear if there is and there is no trivial replacement.
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2020-11-27 11:16 [ruby-core:101124] [Ruby master Feature#17351] Deprecate Random::DEFAULT eregontp
2020-11-27 14:54 ` [ruby-core:101130] " ko1
2020-11-27 14:56 ` [ruby-core:101131] " ko1
2020-11-27 15:05 ` [ruby-core:101132] " eregontp
2020-12-10 7:04 ` [ruby-core:101362] " matz
2021-10-27 11:02 ` Eregon (Benoit Daloze) [this message]
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