Dear Monks,

I can't seem to put this in code, perhaps its too much intoxication lately... :) I have a bunch of objects with a $objref->randomturn() method. What I need is each object to act in lowest to highest order. In the event that X number of objects draw the same number, those X objects need to re-draw until they have drawn a unique number. I am storing all my object references in an array, so I'm thinking about something like this.

As usual thanks for any help!

package SOMECLASS;

sub new { blah blah blah }

sub randomturn {
    my $self = shift @_;
    my $random = int(rand(2000));
    return $random;
}

1;


package main;

use SOMECLASS;

my $array;

#gen objects
for(1..100) {
    push @$array, SOMECLASS->new();
}


foreach (@$array) {

    #build some data structure to store 1) drawn number 2) object refe
+rence 3) turn order ?

    #generate turn order, use recursive function to redraw until there
+ is no tie
    $_->randomturn();  
}

#Finally...
#sort data structure &

foreach(@$turnorder) {   # @$turnorder or whatever data structure...
    $_->dosomething();
}

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