Re: [racket-dev] How about adding this simple list-shuffling procedure to racket?

2010-11-12 Thread Jay McCarthy
I think we should put in a list shuffler into the core. Which should we use? The faster one? Jay On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: 5 minutes ago, Neil Toronto wrote: Carl Eastlund wrote: It's pick a random, uniform ordering, and then sort based on it.

Re: [racket-dev] How about adding this simple list-shuffling procedure to racket?

2010-11-12 Thread Robby Findler
I think we want the one recommended by the statisticians. :) Robby On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Jay McCarthy jay.mccar...@gmail.com wrote: I think we should put in a list shuffler into the core. Which should we use? The faster one? Jay On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Eli Barzilay

Re: [racket-dev] How about adding this simple list-shuffling procedure to racket?

2010-11-12 Thread Eli Barzilay
Any objections to `shuffle' in `racket/list'? -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _ For list-related administrative tasks:

Re: [racket-dev] How about adding this simple list-shuffling procedure to racket?

2010-11-12 Thread Jay McCarthy
Not by me. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: Any objections to `shuffle' in `racket/list'? --          ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:                    http://barzilay.org/                   Maze is Life!