Hi,

In message "Objectify the mersenne twister in 1.8?"
    on 03/02/25, Robert Feldt <feldt / ce.chalmers.se> writes:

|I'd like to know any reasons not to go down that route. The added
|complexity would be minimal since the mt algorithm is already in the
|interpreter.

Historical reason.  The API was defined under the influence of UNIX
rand(3).  Mersenne Twister was its drop-in replacement.  I don't
object to objectify RNG (no pun intended).  It's just not yet done,
and I have no driving force to do it right now.

							matz.