Bug #979: Kernel#srand documentation is misleading http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/979 Author: Federico Builes Status: Open, Priority: Normal According to the docs: "Seeds the pseudorandom number generator to the value of number.to_i.abs". But number.abs is never called: $ ./ruby -v -e "srand(-3); p srand" ruby 1.9.1 (2008-12-23 patchlevel-5000 trunk 20924) [i386-darwin9.5.0] -3 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org