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r: 57694
b: refs/heads/incoming
c: 535244c
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

Author: bors

[refs]

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ refs/heads/try: bf67eb2362b7d0f37012f2d6dac604c3bbacd2c6
 refs/tags/release-0.1: 1f5c5126e96c79d22cb7862f75304136e204f105
 refs/heads/ndm: f3868061cd7988080c30d6d5bf352a5a5fe2460b
 refs/heads/try2: 147ecfdd8221e4a4d4e090486829a06da1e0ca3c
-refs/heads/incoming: 8942099614dba3a52e3fc0805ed6c0c37cb371a4
+refs/heads/incoming: 535244cde4640986f29978c5f9c35fd3b40f58db
 refs/heads/dist-snap: 00dbbd01c2aee72982b3e0f9511ae1d4428c3ba9
 refs/tags/release-0.2: c870d2dffb391e14efb05aa27898f1f6333a9596
 refs/tags/release-0.3: b5f0d0f648d9a6153664837026ba1be43d3e2503

branches/incoming/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();
     }
 }