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Trey Harris  
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 More options Apr 4 2005, 5:12 pm
Newsgroups: perl.perl6.language
From: t...@sage.org (Trey Harris)
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:12:37 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Apr 4 2005 5:12 pm
Subject: Re: [S29] pick on other things than junctions
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In a message dated Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Ingo Blechschmidt writes:

> What does pick return on hashes? Does it return a random value or a
> random pair? (I suppose returning a pair is more useful.)

I'd assume in all cases that pick returns an *alias*, and in the case of
hashes, an alias to the pair:

  # Add entropy to your hash
  for 1..$entropy_thresshold {
      %hash.pick.value *= rand $scribble_factor;
  }

Trey


 
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