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r: 30955
b: refs/heads/incoming
c: 0b9a47a
h: refs/heads/master
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  30953: 81165ed
  30951: c5ef3b0
v: v3

Author: Daniel Patterson

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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ refs/heads/try: d324a424d8f84b1eb049b12cf34182bda91b0024
 refs/tags/release-0.1: 1f5c5126e96c79d22cb7862f75304136e204f105
 refs/heads/ndm: f3868061cd7988080c30d6d5bf352a5a5fe2460b
 refs/heads/try2: d0c6ce338884ee21843f4b40bf6bf18d222ce5df
-refs/heads/incoming: 92841793114d7e60e3227d9087dc8741e7592789
+refs/heads/incoming: 0b9a47a18969f770f57b84f50a22e48b97d6ea28
 refs/heads/dist-snap: 2f32a1581f522e524009138b33b1c7049ced668d
 refs/tags/release-0.2: c870d2dffb391e14efb05aa27898f1f6333a9596
 refs/tags/release-0.3: b5f0d0f648d9a6153664837026ba1be43d3e2503

branches/incoming/src/libcore/rand.rs

@@ -334,6 +334,13 @@ pub fn task_rng() -> Rng {
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Returns a random uint, using the task's based random number generator.
+ */
+pub fn random() -> uint {
+    task_rng().gen_uint()
+}
+
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 pub mod tests {
@@ -495,6 +502,12 @@ pub mod tests {
         assert r.shuffle(~[1, 1, 1]) == ~[1, 1, 1];
         assert r.gen_uint_range(0u, 1u) == 0u;
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    pub fn random() {
+        // not sure how to test this aside from just getting a number
+        let _n : uint = rand::random();
+    }
 }