N3775: Deprecating rand() and Friends -- Walter Brown

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Document number: N3775

Date: 2013-09-25

Deprecating rand() and Friends

by Walter Brown

Excerpt:

This paper proposes to deprecate some <cstdlib> legacy interfaces in order to encourage
programmers to migrate to the <random> component of the C++11 standard library.

This proposal has been separated, at LEWG’s request, from the others in [Bro13b] ...

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