From: uncutstone wu <uncutstone@...>
Date: 2006-06-19T16:54:03+09:00
Subject: Is it more convenient to have a random_each in ruby stdlib?

I found it may be a common case that we need randomly enumerate elements 
in a array or some other collections.
Please take a look at the very simple snippet of code below:

class  Array
	def random_each
		a = self.dup
		n = len = self.length
		len.times do
			index = rand(n)
			yield a[index]
			a.delete_at(index)
			n -= 1
		end
	end
end

a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
a.random_each {|e| print e , ' '}

result:
7 1 6 2 4 3 5

I don't whether it is proper to put this kind of simple but useful 
utility in the standard library of ruby.

Thanks.

uncutstone

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