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		goldbrick on May 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby Bug: SecureRandom should try /dev/urandom fir... I don't understand. You may still pass nil explicitly if the argument defaults to 16?

infraruby on May 4, 2016 [–]

Yes:

  def f(n = 16)
    n
  end

  p f # => 16
  p f(nil) # => nil

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