[ruby-core:18071] Re: New array methods cycle, choice, shuffle (plus bug in cycle)

So Jim I guess I'm actually responding to the footnote in your footnote.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Jim Weirich <[e-mail]> wrote:

> [1] Yes, I know you can do arr.sample.first.  Blech.[2]
>
> [2] And if anyone suggests that sample(1) should return a single element and
> sample(2) should return an array, I will ... Well, I don't know what I'll
> do.  But it won't be pretty.

Good point.  In my head this is how I saw this method working, but in
practice this would be gross, since I can think
of it creating annoying inconsistencies and surprises.  And
arr.sample.first is just not pretty.

-greg