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r: 55727
b: refs/heads/master
c: 535244c
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  55725: 06c5f84
  55723: 44bbd25
  55719: 0e4a11b
  55711: 05f9437
v: v3

Author: bors

[refs]

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 8942099614dba3a52e3fc0805ed6c0c37cb371a4
+refs/heads/master: 535244cde4640986f29978c5f9c35fd3b40f58db
 refs/heads/snap-stage1: e33de59e47c5076a89eadeb38f4934f58a3618a6
 refs/heads/snap-stage3: 79a2b2eafc3c766cecec8a5f76317693bae9ed17
 refs/heads/try: 8eb2bab100b42f0ba751552d8eff00eb2134c55a

trunk/src/libcore/rand.rs

@@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ impl Rand for i64 {
     }
 }
 
+impl Rand for uint {
+    fn rand(rng: @rand::Rng) -> uint {
+        rng.gen_uint()
+    }
+}
+
 impl Rand for u8 {
     fn rand(rng: @rand::Rng) -> u8 {
         rng.gen_u8()
@@ -149,6 +155,7 @@ pub struct Weighted<T> {
 }
 
 pub trait RngUtil {
+    /// Return a random value for a Rand type
     fn gen<T:Rand>(&self) -> T;
     /**
      * Return a random int
@@ -739,10 +746,11 @@ pub fn task_rng() -> @Rng {
 }
 
 /**
- * Returns a random uint, using the task's based random number generator.
+ * Returns a random value of a Rand type, using the task's random number
+ * generator.
  */
-pub fn random() -> uint {
-    task_rng().gen_uint()
+pub fn random<T: Rand>() -> T {
+    task_rng().gen()
 }
 
 
@@ -915,8 +923,10 @@ mod tests {
 
     #[test]
     fn random() {
-        // not sure how to test this aside from just getting a number
+        // not sure how to test this aside from just getting some values
         let _n : uint = rand::random();
+        let _f : f32 = rand::random();
+        let _o : Option<Option<i8>> = rand::random();
     }
 }