From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Brian Gough <bjg@network-theory.co.uk>
To: Peter Teuben <teuben@astro.umd.edu>
Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: fprintf(stderr,...) output in GSL routines (gsl_rng_env_setup)
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:20:00 -0000
Message-id: <15259.36992.320426.227323@debian>
References: <15259.15112.921941.197191@debian> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10109091030000.4459-100000@apus.astro.umd.edu>
X-SW-Source: 2001/msg00486.html

Peter Teuben writes:
 > yes, I understood that also from the example, but i actually like
 > the idea of the user giving control of the random number
 > generator. So in the code the user can supply
 > 	seed=0,ran3 where they are both optional. The method of
 > assigning to gsl_rng_default_type would require me to manually
 > build a large list of (to me officially unknown) names, whereas the
 > putenv() method has the nice side-effect that if you say

Ok, I see.  There is an undocumented function gsl_rng_types_setup()
that will give you a list of all valid generators.  Look in
rng/default.c to see how it is used in gsl_rng_env_setup.

I have to document that, and add a function for registering new
generator types.