From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: avoid narrow-to-region (was: Re: replace-regexp)
Date: Sun, 09 May 2021 12:54:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yzsrxd9.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAP_d_8W7EA+OMzh5HxU76KcSPMd2Sg00ZNzqw0pZo_xrHwCE2Q@mail.gmail.com
Yuri Khan wrote:
> From the Wikipedia article I linked to previously, which you
> apparently chose to read later:
>
> In principle this shuffling method can even result in
> program failures like endless loops or access violations,
> because the correctness of a sorting algorithm may depend on
> properties of the order relation (like transitivity) that
> a comparison producing random values will certainly not
> have.
In principle maybe - but not in practice, it seems.
Proposal: Instead of quoting computer science theory, why
don't _you_ write some Elisp and show us how you think it
should be done?
It isn't because it is easier and more comfortable to broadly
criticize someone or something else, than to be active and
creative oneself - is it?
--
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
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2021-05-06 23:06 replace-regexp Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-07 6:54 ` replace-regexp Tassilo Horn
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2021-05-08 5:38 ` replace-regexp Yuri Khan
2021-05-08 13:53 ` replace-regexp Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-08 18:41 ` replace-regexp Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-08 18:50 ` replace-regexp Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-08 21:59 ` replace-regexp Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-08 22:03 ` replace-regexp Tassilo Horn
2021-05-08 22:25 ` replace-regexp Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-08 22:54 ` [External] : replace-regexp Drew Adams
2021-05-09 2:48 ` replace-regexp Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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2021-05-08 23:46 ` replace-regexp Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-08 23:51 ` replace-regexp Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-09 7:38 ` replace-regexp Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-08 22:59 ` avoid narrow-to-region (was: Re: replace-regexp) Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-09 5:48 ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-09 6:09 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-09 6:34 ` Yuri Khan
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2021-05-09 7:22 ` Jean Louis
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2021-05-09 10:06 ` Yuri Khan
2021-05-09 10:54 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-05-09 12:27 ` Yuri Khan
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2021-05-09 13:14 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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2021-05-09 15:13 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-21 17:35 ` same sound random sort everywhere (was: Re: avoid narrow-to-region (was: Re: replace-regexp)) Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-21 20:12 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-21 20:47 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-07 8:02 ` replace-regexp Jean Louis
2021-05-07 18:29 ` replace-regexp Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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