rand::random_range

[olehmisar]

Feature request

rand::random() is a convenient way to generate random numbers easily without thinking about generators, threads, and other stuff. But it generates only random numbers in a fixed range. It feels like there also should be rand::random_range(low, high) as a shortcut for thread_rng().gen_range(low, high).

[dhardy]

Interesting that you propose random_range(low, high) given that we have had so much discussion regarding adding support for ranges (rng.gen_range(low ..= high), rng.gen_range(..high), etc.).

[olehmisar]

Ah, sorry. I am not an active user of this repository. I use rand crate for my projects and I thought that it would be cool to add random_range. Is it possible to add this feature(I can help implement it) or should I close the issue?

[newpavlov]

I will close it in favor of #989.