From: seebs@... (Peter Seebach)
Date: 2007-04-30T12:02:12+09:00
Subject: Re: sorting by rand?

In message <deb2337a0704291937g7384a9bej381a99282460dc07@mail.gmail.com>, "Rick DeNatale" write
s:
>I believe that the "something to that effect was probably:
>
>     x.sort_by {rand}

Yes.

>Perfectly safe as far as I can see.

Ahh!  Yes.  Profiling it reveals this; it only calls rand once per
element.  Sane, and efficient.

>x.sort {rand}

I think I've seen also sort {rand <=> rand}, which is crazy.

-s