On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 10:42:37AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 04:47:27PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:

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- between
- ranged
- spanning

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/List-of-prepositions.htm
- amid

Sigh, names.

I think "inclusive" is best.

I find it not very descriptive of what the function does. Is there one
you like second best? Or are you convinced they're all much much much
worse than "inclusive" that they shouldn't be considered?

Right, I don't think any are sufficiently descriptive. "Incluisve"
with two arguments seems unambiguous and complete to me. :)

The problem with "between", "ranged", "spanning" is that they don't
tell the reader whether we're dealing with an "open interval" or a
"closed interval".  They are just different ways of saying that it's a
range between, say, 0 and 20.  But it doesn't tell you whether it
includes 0 or 20 or not.

The only way I can see for making it ambiguous is either to use the
terminology "closed interval" or "inclusive".  And "open" and "closed"
can have other meanings, so get_random_u32_inclusive() is going to be
less confusing than get_random_u32_closed().

Alright, that about settles it then. I'll re-roll.

Jason