[Push] MinRandomInteger > MaxRandomInteger

[Lee Spector]

Thanks Ed -- these are helpful, and should be incorporated into some new documentation that we are beginning to put together.

 -Lee

On Jun 22, 2010, at 5:33 AM, PerPlex Ed wrote:

> Another consequence of this - that should be in the specification - is that 
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> executing Code.Rand when MaxPointsInRandomExpression is negative (and nothing in the specification prevents that configuration variable from assuming a negative value) will cause an atomic instruction to be pushed (just like if the the value was 1).
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> "atomic instruction" is the name I use for all instructions exclusive of the Sequence instruction.
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> I'm not trying to be pedantic. This kind of messages typically arise from some crash when I run randomly generated Push code.
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> Lee said:
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>> On the latter: it appears to act as if the argument was positive and then negate the result.
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