JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 3cc2d4c8a29f0b3766be3c6705985a5479a4b570
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By StefanKarpinski:

In this case, I really don't buy that reasoning. This is not a very commonly used function and introducing a somewhat consistent naming scheme is a huge improvement. Functions that generate random numbers should start with `rand`. We're not going all Mathematica on this an insisting that things be named `RandomNumberGeneratorForChiSquaredDistribution` or anything like that — `randchi2` is perfectly reasonable name.