From: Paul Smith <paul@...>
Date: 2009-11-14T00:43:21+09:00
Subject: Re: just for fun: oneline code for 4 language permutation

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Haoqi Haoqi <axgle@126.com> wrote:
> hello,happy weekday!
> in ruby1.9:
> irb:>
> %w{ruby c java php}.permutation.to_a
>
> and my code is(all ruby):
> irb:>
> (1..1000).inject([]){|p,_|p<<%w{ruby c java php}.sort_by{rand}}.uniq

.shuffle! is shorter than .sort_by{rand} by 5 characters.

I hate that your method is nondeterministic, but I've got it spinning
in a while loop and having broken it yet...

>
> how about you?
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