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authorknu <knu@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2008-08-12 05:56:10 +0000
committerknu <knu@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2008-08-12 05:56:10 +0000
commit9ba8db842e7bbf6f08ce44931c89abccf0472ede (patch)
tree08f8962e886c3da6f75770c862b32a02423fc300 /array.c
parente65c07e98b1b076ab99a2b12043148b3b4962386 (diff)
* array.c (rb_ary_choice): Resurrect #choice. Let me think about
it for a while. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/branches/ruby_1_8@18514 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/array.c b/array.c
index 9bd5e0bff3..5e2ed4db92 100644
--- a/array.c
+++ b/array.c
@@ -3351,6 +3351,27 @@ rb_ary_sample(argc, argv, ary)
/*
* call-seq:
+ * array.choice -> obj
+ *
+ * Choose a random element from an array. NOTE: This method will be
+ * deprecated in future. Use #sample instead.
+ */
+
+static VALUE
+rb_ary_choice(ary)
+ VALUE ary;
+{
+ long i, j;
+
+ i = RARRAY(ary)->len;
+ if (i == 0) return Qnil;
+ j = rb_genrand_real()*i;
+ return RARRAY(ary)->ptr[j];
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * call-seq:
* ary.cycle {|obj| block }
* ary.cycle(n) {|obj| block }
*
@@ -3882,6 +3903,7 @@ Init_Array()
rb_define_method(rb_cArray, "shuffle!", rb_ary_shuffle_bang, 0);
rb_define_method(rb_cArray, "shuffle", rb_ary_shuffle, 0);
rb_define_method(rb_cArray, "sample", rb_ary_sample, -1);
+ rb_define_method(rb_cArray, "choice", rb_ary_choice, 0);
rb_define_method(rb_cArray, "cycle", rb_ary_cycle, -1);
rb_define_method(rb_cArray, "permutation", rb_ary_permutation, -1);
rb_define_method(rb_cArray, "combination", rb_ary_combination, 1);