no, you're right it's not rocket science, and thanks for posting the code example as it's great to now know this, at the same time though, the idea of basic is that it should be basic, I find alot of the time simply coding in C is more direct, I think this is still a perfectly valid wish list item, perhaps even more so now, yes you can do it with only 2 extra lines, but you shouldn't need too, in most coding languages you can limit the random function.

it's great to look at it from the standpoint of people using the compiler for years, but think more about it being used in highschools or colleges for the first time.