----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Hagelberg <p...@hagelb.org> Sent: Wednesday 11 February 2009 13:16
> > Jason Wolfe <jawo...@berkeley.edu> writes: > > >> Would you consider changing the names of these 2 functions ? > >> > >> random-permutation -> shuffle > >> random-element -> one-of > >> > >> Shorter names are a trademark of clojure. > >> "one-of" was taken straight from paip =) > > > > I'd be OK with shuffle, I guess, but I don't know if one-of is > > descriptive enough for my taste. I feel like neither are used so > > often that a slightly longer and descriptive name isn't merited. > > I'm not a fan of "one-of". If it has to be shorter, perhaps "pick-rand"? > > -Phil I wrote essentially the same function as "random-element", but let it take a collection. It looked like "nth" without the index arg, so I called it "rand-nth". (defn rand-nth [coll] (nth (seq coll) (rand-int (count coll)))) One more naming option anyway. - Jeff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
