rand() returns structarray

[aplavin]

can turn it into an 1.9 extension if Random is considered a dependency

[aplavin]

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[piever]

Do other array libraries do this? It seems to me that rand always returns a plain array, regardless of the type of the container with the options:

julia> using Random

julia> s = [1, 2];

julia> rand(Random.MersenneTwister(), s, (3,))
3-element Vector{Int64}:
 2
 1
 2

julia> rand(Random.MersenneTwister(), Set(s), (3,))
3-element Vector{Int64}:
 2
 1
 2

julia> using CUDA

julia> rand(Random.MersenneTwister(), CUDA.cu(s), (3,))
3-element Vector{Int64}:
 1
 2
 2

[aplavin]

Do other array libraries do this?

That's a barrier for introducing any behavior in the first place, because at some point no packages do <insert anything> :)

I think it makes sense, if rand returned structarray then B = rand(A, length(A)) and A could be used completely interchangeably, eg for bootstrap sampling.

[aplavin]

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