Re^2: A little golfing challenge: replace digits by random letters

half-blind-sort is a great idea (and so is {rand()<rand} ).

Couldn't resist sort{rand(2)-1} as it's shorter by 2 and truer blind.

Update/Correction: as vr rightly notes, int(rand(2)-1) is constantly 0!!! Because sort expects an integer back from the comparison BLOCK and int()'ing rand(2)-1 leaves just 0 :(. So, both these compensate for that bug and are uniformly random too: sort{rand(6)-4} and sort{1-rand(3)%3}

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Re^3: A little golfing challenge: replace digits by random letters by vr (Curate) on Feb 10, 2019 at 14:12 UTC
Perhaps `sort{rand(2)-1}` (in effect, same as `sort{0}`) is somewhat too deterministic :). But `$ perl -E 'say sort{rand 2}a..z'` produces random enough strings, and is shorter.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: A little golfing challenge: replace digits by random letters by bliako (Abbot) on Feb 10, 2019 at 15:28 UTC
ai! indeed it is. got bitten by int. This is uniformly random `sort{rand(6)-4}` and so is this `sort{1-rand(3)%3}`	[reply] [d/l] [select]