Re: LISP Questions - random, random elements and memory management

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <mailman.11114.1258689162.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jeff Clough wrote:
> > From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
> > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:44:24 -0500
> > 
> >> How about putting it in a text file that you load into a temporary 
> >> buffer when you need it?  Then kill the buffer when you're done with it.
> 
> Isn't the point to read the words into a list?  So assuming the file looks
> like:
> 
> ("word1" "word2" "word3" ... "wordN")

I thought the point was to select a word at random.  Putting it into a 
list was just part of his initial implementation of this.

If he reads it into a buffer, instead of picking a random list element, 
he can pick a random line number.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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