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Similarly to https://github.com/nlohmann/json wouldn't it make sense for namegen to also consist of only a single header file (namegen.h) ? I know it's a matter of taste but for me personally those 1-header "libraries" have become really appealing lately. Anyone else thinking the same way?

hi!
great name generator!

we are trying to use it at ivan Attnam/ivan#363
on linux is working great, but on windows is outputting empty names,

any tips?

@Kronuz, I've noticed that the C++ version often misses groups entirely, and the generated name is wrong. For example:

$ ./namegen '(a)(a)' 10
> combinations = 1
a
a
a
a
a
a
a
a
a
a

As far as I can tell, it's the second "a" that's missed. And this only seems to happen for certain letters (in both positions), like "a", "h", "i", "j", "q", "u", "v", "x", and "y" (and maybe more).

This comes up alternations, too:

$ ./namegen '(a)(b|a)' 10
> combinations = 2
a
ab
a
ab
ab
a
ab
a
ab
ab

That one is unable to generate "aa". I poked around in GDB trying to figure this out (where, unfortunately, it failed to pretty print any of the C++ objects), but had no luck so far.

Hi! I read about this project from this blog post from 2009, when the generator was in Perl and it was... slooooowwwww.

I did an implementation of the parser and of the generator that is not based on Parse::RecDescent any more, and it's as fast as I could expect a reasonable implementation. The example <<<<<<<s>>>>>>> takes less than 30 ms in my Linux VM.

I'll be describing it shortly on my blog, I'll add a reference here as soon as it is online. If you are interested I can contribute the whole implementation here instead of creating a different project, so we can avoid too much dispersion.

Let me know!

Not sure if this is a generator architecture related issue but since D and d are marked as suitable for a stupid person's name I would expect there to be types of random replacements that indicate the gender of the name to be generated. What say you?

Sorry, new to GitHub, if this isn't the proper way to ask questions.

I'd love to create my naming template string and then bookmark the page so I could just visit it on my phone or tablet without having to go through the effort of typing it in each time or saving the string in a memo or email and pasting it in each time.

Is something like this possible with minimal effort? Or even already possible and I just totally missed it?

Thanks for building this utility!!

TMO

hello from community IVAN development : )
Wonderful name generator!

We have found a problem with the random number generator under MinGW at Attnam/ivan#400
on linux is working great, but on windows is outputting the same name sequence,

It seems like it is a known limitation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18880654/why-do-i-get-the-same-sequence-for-every-run-with-stdrandom-device-with-mingw

Any idea how we might be able to implement an alternative random number generator for this compiler toolchain?

This might help: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/michael_howard/2005/01/14/cryptographically-secure-random-number-on-windows-without-using-cryptoapi/

Thanks!