SE-0202 Amendment Proposal: Rename Random to DefaultRandomNumberGenerator

[Alejandro (Alejandro Alonso)]

I would like to echo something I said in the previous thread

@Alejandro

There is a term-of-art justification for this name as well. In many languages, such as Java, Scala, Kotlin, D, C# (.NET), Ruby, this spelling is consistently used as the stdlib RNG. Now I understand Swift isn’t one of these other languages, but I think it’s important to evaluate what other languages have done. Granted these languages get most (if not all?) of their random functionality from this Random type, but it still acts as the stdlib RNG that these languages use. I’m still under the opinion that this spelling still expresses that it is the stdlib RNG. I think in combination with the spelling of the static property default this further explains that this is obviously the stdlib RNG. As for not alluding to the fact that other generators can exist, I disagree entirely. This would be true if we did not come up with something like RandomNumberGenerator , but we made a public utility that many others can build from in addition to the stdlib RNG.