a few questions about discrete rng

[Rodney Sparapani]

Brian:

Apparently, I didn't understand the standards documentation with respect to 
size_t.  But, it's too bad about gsl_vector.  I think this decision should be 
reconsidered.  Also, I remember reading that there have been some developments 
with respect to vectors in C99.  Might this not also be a good reason to 
re-think the design?  It is alot easier to pass one parameter than 2 since you 
can easily get them backwards.

But, back to discrete with size_t and without gsl_vector.  I thought that it 
would be better to streamline it a bit and make it look more like the other 
rng's.  I'm attaching an example of that which also contains a prototype for a 
multinomial randist.  Comments are welcome and please feel free to use this in 
GSL.

Rodney Sparapani              Medical College of Wisconsin
Sr. Biostatistician           Patient Care & Outcomes Research (PCOR)
rsparapa@mcw.edu              http://www.mcw.edu/pcor
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