How does one generate a random number in Apple's Swift language?

Question

I realize the Swift book provided an implementation of a random number generator. Is the best practice to copy and paste this implementation in one\'s own program? Or is t

Answer 1

I've been able to just use rand() to get a random CInt. You can make it an Int by using something like this:

let myVar: Int = Int(rand())

You can use your favourite C random function, and just convert to value to Int if needed.