I'm working on a project which uses TheSchwartz, and I saw that it was supposed to work with multiple databases.
I was not sure how it would maintain some of it's stuff over more than one database, so I tested it - and found that all the stuff kept going to the same database server.
I looked at the source, and found that it's routine for shuffling databases uses Util::List, and so I tested it:
perl -e 'use List::Util qw(shuffle); @a=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]; foreac
+h (1..24) { print join(",",@ { shuffle(@a) })."\n"}'
That gave me:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
The shuffle routine in List::Util looks reasonable at first glance:
sub shuffle (@) {
my @a=\(@_);
my $n;
my $i=@_;
map {
$n = rand($i--);
(${$a[$n]}, $a[$n] = $a[$i])[0];
} @_;
}
Personally, I'm never comfortable using floating point values for array indices, but perhaps there's a perl magic at work that I don't understand. At any rate, either there's a bug in shuffle, or something is very wrong with my random generator - or am I, along with the author of TheSchwartz using List::Util::shuffle incorrectly?
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