From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-06-26T09:05:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Private Method Error


On Jun 25, 2007, at 7:43 PM, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
<snip>
>
> Let's say lines has 10 elements.  rand(11) gives you a number between
> 0 and 10, inclusive.  Adding 1 gives you a number between 1 and 11.
> Since the last index of lines is 9, that means that if you get 10 or
> 11, you're indexing nil (lines[10] or lines[11]).
>
> So... you probably want lines[rand(lines.size)].

Ahh! Okay! Thanks!
> (You probably also want to do something to update @valie :-)
Don't worry, I do. I didn't want to show my code for fear of  
violating something.

~ Ari
English is like a pseudo-random number generator - there are a  
bajillion rules to it, but nobody cares.