Yeah, I worded that funny. I meant the sort will be biased toward the current
order. I didn't mean any one comparison.
Thanks for the catch!
On May 22, 2013, at 5:09 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
> On 22/05/2013 23:50, Dar Scott wrote:
>> I think the problem comes up when two equal items are compar
On 22/05/2013 23:50, Dar Scott wrote:
I think the problem comes up when two equal items are compared. I suspect that
sort will tend to leave things unchanged.
It's not just "tend to" leave them unchanged - it will *always* leave
them unchanged if the sort keys are equal. It says in the docs
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> From: Dar Scott
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Sent: Wed, May 22, 2013 5:26 pm
> Subject: Re: RandomSeed test (was:randomly order a list)
>
>
> There is a potential confusion in the term randomSeed. We might be using it
> two
> ways.
>
> There is
Sent: Wed, May 22, 2013 5:26 pm
Subject: Re: RandomSeed test (was:randomly order a list)
There is a potential confusion in the term randomSeed. We might be using it
two
ways.
There is the randomSeed property, the state of the random number generator.
And there is the argument to the random
There is a potential confusion in the term randomSeed. We might be using it
two ways.
There is the randomSeed property, the state of the random number generator.
And there is the argument to the random function.
And...
Shouldn't the 'get fld 1' be inside the loop? (Or initialized the same
