Add more info about doctesting things with rand #22584
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KristofferC
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| produce consistent outputs during different Julia sessions. | ||
| produce consistent outputs during different Julia sessions. If you would like to show some random | ||
| number generation related functionality, one option is to explicitly construct and seed your own | ||
| [`MersenneTwister`] (or other pseudorandom number generator) and pass it to the functions you are |
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should MersenneTwister be reffed?
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I thought I did! Grrrr
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@KristofferC better? |
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Another thing that would be nice to mention is meta blocks (can be used to srand before every doctest in a markdown file): https://juliadocs.github.io/Documenter.jl/latest/man/syntax/#@meta-block-1 but that can be done in another PR.
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Since I just figured this out, might be useful to others.