12 Feb
2009
12 Feb
'09
11:58 a.m.
<rant> It seems everyone has just been reading the first few words of Jan's email and not the actual content. Jan is clearly trying to write a *random list shuffling* function, not a function to generate permutations. Let's try to be helpful, people... </rant>
Agreed, I've been quite confused by this thread. In the spirit of laziness, though, wouldn't it seem like the "right" method is to generate all the permutations lazily, and then choose a random element of that list?