Re: Re: Re: Re: random elements from array

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You are right...and accidentally demonstrated why you should break things out a little more and put in parens. I am a decent Perl programmer, and that code is unmaintainable.

Just because Perl lets you do something doesn't mean that you should.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: random elements from array - new twist by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 06, 2002 at 03:34 UTC
You have a good point. In truth, I wrote that function several months back when I first started exploring perl's syntax. When the question came up, I just grepped for the line and c&p'd it into the answer as a means of demonstrating the concept. I wasn't trying to sell or promote that particular implementation of shuffle. I am kind of embarrassed to have had to defend it. Nah! You're thinking of Simon Templar, originally played (on UKTV) by Roger Moore and later by Ian Ogilvy	[reply] [d/l]

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by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 06, 2002 at 03:34 UTC

You have a good point. In truth, I wrote that function several months back when I first started exploring perl's syntax. When the question came up, I just grepped for the line and c&p'd it into the answer as a means of demonstrating the concept. I wasn't trying to sell or promote that particular implementation of shuffle.

I am kind of embarrassed to have had to defend it.

Nah! You're thinking of Simon Templar, originally played (on UKTV) by Roger Moore and later by Ian Ogilvy

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