Too complicated code for generating a random string?

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Sat Feb 23 06:38:22 PST 2013


Jens Mueller:

> It's a special case of randomSample.

Maybe in theory, but I am not going to use randomSample to 
generate a random string. Your code is slow and bug-prone.


> But you may argue that the use case occurs
> that often that it should be added.

Right. (I even argue that in Phobos today there are functions 
that are much less commonly useful than a choice()).

Bye,
bearophile


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