From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Add seq-random-elt Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:30:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878ttime2i.fsf@cassou.me> <87bmyd8lwx.fsf@petton.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1477085479 22601 195.159.176.226 (21 Oct 2016 21:31:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 21:31:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 21 23:31:15 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bxhP9-0004L4-LU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 23:31:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxhPB-0004sE-R5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:31:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53843) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxhOa-0004s7-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:30:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxhOX-000588-GR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:30:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=52728 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxhOX-000580-9u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bxhOM-0007Bp-4Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 23:30:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:lRBkpAA62F+W+KRPdKEfI44+NcI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208589 Archived-At: >> Hmm... do we really need that? What's the benefit? > I think it's convenient. Accessing random elements of sequences is not > uncommon. Right, but (seq-elt L (random (seq-length L))) it pretty convenient to write and pretty clear as well, so the benefit seems slim. Stefan