From: Daniel Brockman <daniel@...>
Date: 2005-07-19T02:03:37+09:00
Subject: Re: [SOLUTION] Sampling (#39)

Jim Menard <jimm@io.com> writes:

> def sample(members, range)
>    selected = Set.new
>    members.times {
>      val = rand(range)
>      val = rand(range) until selected.add?(val)
>    }
>    selected.to_a.sort
> end

I just wanted to point out that this,

>      val = rand(range)
>      val = rand(range) until selected.add?(val)

can also be written like this:

       begin
         val = rand(range)
       end until selected.add?(val)

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>

    So really, we all have to ask ourselves:
    Am I waiting for RMS to do this?   --TTN.