Re: [Boost-users] Random: Using random generators with runtime parameters

23 Nov 2008

      Matthias Troyer  writes:
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On 25 Mar 2008, at 19:53, Tim Keitt wrote:
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I've often wondered this myself (not the how, but the why). This is  
a rather odd
feature of the Boost Random library. Most libraries would have a  
function list
"rnorm(mean, std)" which would return a random deviate with the  
specified mean
and standard deviation. Changing these at runtime is important for
Distributions in Boost.Random do just that.
Matthias
Matthias,

just noticed your reply. Could you provide and example.
All I see is eg variate = lognormal_distribution(mean, var)().
Is that what you had in mind? It seems odd that the parameters
are provided as arguments to a constructor rather than a
simple function call.

THK