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| In November 1999, Jeet Sukumaran proposed a framework based on virtual functions, |
| and later sketched a template-based approach. Ed Brey pointed out that Microsoft |
| Visual C++ does not support in-class member initializations and suggested the |
| enum workaround. Dave Abrahams highlighted quantization issues. |
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| The first public release of this random number library materialized in March |
| 2000 after extensive discussions on the boost mailing list. Many thanks to |
| Beman Dawes for his original min_rand class, portability fixes, documentation |
| suggestions, and general guidance. Harry Erwin sent a header file which provided |
| additional insight into the requirements. Ed Brey and Beman Dawes wanted an |
| iterator-like interface. |
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| Beman Dawes managed the formal review, during which Matthias Troyer, Csaba |
| Szepesvari, and Thomas Holenstein gave detailed comments. The reviewed version |
| became an official part of boost on 17 June 2000. |
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| Gary Powell contributed suggestions for code cleanliness. Dave Abrahams and |
| Howard Hinnant suggested to move the basic generator templates from <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">detail</span></code> |
| to <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">random</span></code>. |
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| Ed Brey asked to remove superfluous warnings and helped with <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">uint64_t</span></code> handling. Andreas Scherer tested |
| with MSVC. Matthias Troyer contributed a <code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="reference.html#header.boost.random.lagged_fibonacci_hpp" title="Header <boost/random/lagged_fibonacci.hpp>">lagged |
| Fibonacci generator</a></code>. Michael Stevens found a bug in the copy semantics |
| of <code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="../boost/normal_distribution.html" title="Class template normal_distribution">normal_distribution</a></code> |
| and suggested documentation improvements. |
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