From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-07-18T19:17:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [NUBY] Ruby Way code for shuffling an array doesn't behave as   expected

Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:

> One example in The Ruby Way claims that in the following snippet second
> line shuffles the a (i.e., makes an array consisting of the same
> elements as a, but in a different order).

By the way, if you just want to shuffle an Array you can also use the 
much simpler ary.sort_by { rand }. (It will get minimally biased with 
containers containing millions of elements, but that can be fixed by 
using Array.new(32) { rand } instead of rand.)

> Best regards,
> Alexey Verkhovsky

More regards,
Florian Gross