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in thread A reproducible shuffle? ("stable shuffle")

Sure. But, you store your pathological sequences for testing, often in something like DBM::Deep. This didn't sound like a testing problem.
My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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