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| author | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2014-12-17 22:18:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2015-03-20 15:28:53 +0100 |
| commit | fbaa0becc787e73fa539e0d497b0d74be27c9534 (patch) | |
| tree | c89e004b5e33d51ca07635678415c8dc4e8f2f23 /lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml | |
| parent | 1d9350693fe2c4d1d6b2baa504aacd070e023a1a (diff) | |
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Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml index e001058e19..2cc621ffc3 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/random.xml @@ -70,12 +70,11 @@ <desc> <p>Seeds random number generation with integer values in the process dictionary, and returns the old state.</p> - <p>One way of obtaining a seed is to use the BIF <c>now/0</c>:</p> + <p>One easy way of obtaining a unique value to seed with is to:</p> <code type="none"> - ... - {A1,A2,A3} = now(), - random:seed(A1, A2, A3), - ...</code> + random:seed(<seealso marker="erts:erlang#phash2/1">erlang:phash2</seealso>([<seealso marker="erts:erlang#node/0">node()</seealso>]), + <seealso marker="erts:erlang#monotonic_time/0">erlang:monotonic_time()</seealso>, + <seealso marker="erts:erlang#unique_integer/0">erlang:unique_integer()</seealso>)</code> </desc> </func> <func> |