From: Branden Tanga <branden.tanga@...>
Date: 2010-05-18T01:58:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange error in ruby 1.9.1

Alex Gutteridge wrote:
> 
> You don't check that index < recipient_array.size so if enough last 
> names
> match recipient_array[index] will be out of bounds. In Ruby Array.[]
> returns nil for out of bounds indices. To answer your exact question the
> random order given by shuffle! will be different each time you run the
> program so although the input is the same the result of your algorithm 
> is
> not.


Aaaah, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the help.
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