Re: [Boost-users] [Random] uniform_int::operator()(Engine &, result_type)

AMDG Hossein Haeri wrote:

I was looking at the uniform_int<>'s reference page:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/doc/html/boost/uniform_int.html

and realised that there is no information whatsoever about what the following overload of its operator () does:

template<typename Engine> result_type operator()(Engine & eng, result_type n) ;

Do I understand it correctly that this generates a number in [min, n] (probably subject to some good conditions)?

No. It generates a number in [0, n). The purpose of this overload is to allow variate_generator > to be a model of RandomNumberGenerator. I believe that this was a mistake, since there is a separate random_number_generator class template, but it needs to be maintained for backwards compatibility. In Christ, Steven Watanabe