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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Random number generation in LISP or using it
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:56:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50906101156i38f67ec9g1734a83a011f6b50@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4a2ff5ad$0$90268$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Colin S.
Miller<no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> bolega wrote:
>>
>> I am a newbie with the following problem.
>>
> <snip>
>>
>> The function "random" does not work in emacs. I guess one get the
>> start line and end line of a marked region and then use that to
>> disorder (or re-order) the lines according to a list of random numbers
>> generated ?
>
> Bolega,
> (random) is in the package cl. Since (random) doesn't have an autoload,
> you'll need to use
> (require 'cl)
> before you can use (random).

Or do as the manual says:

  (eval-when-compile (require 'cl))

to avoid some potential problems.


> <snip>
>
>
>
> HTH,
> Colin S. Miller
>




  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-10 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-10 15:21 Random number generation in LISP or using it bolega
2009-06-10 15:26 ` bolega
2009-06-10 18:04 ` Colin S. Miller
2009-06-10 18:56   ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-06-10 18:21 ` Thomas A. Russ
2009-06-10 18:21 ` Thomas A. Russ
2009-06-10 21:57 ` Xah Lee
2009-06-11  7:34 ` TomSW
2009-07-08 11:54 ` Mario Lang
2009-07-08 12:57   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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