Re: LOGO-L> eliminating items randomly from a list

[George Mills <mills@softronix.com>]

Frank Caggiano wrote:
> 
> Frank Caggiano wrote:
> 
> >
> > Your right. The original request spoke about a list of procedure names
> > which would of course be unique. I should have noted that in my reply.
> >
> 
> of course after I wrote that I realized that was wrong. No reason that a
> list of procedures couldn't have duplicates in it.
> 
> George Mills wrote:
> >>  make "item (random (count :aList) - 1) + 1
> 
> I thnik you ned to take alook at this statement George.  I don;t believe
> you want that ' - 1'.  Run tour code like:
> 
> make "foo [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9]
> repeat count :foo [make "foo TrueRemRandomFrom :foo show :foo]
> 
> You'll see that the last element from the list is never selected.
> If you remove the ' - 1' it seems to work ok.
> 

Ooops, your right. Thankyou for noticing !!!

> regards
> 
> --
> Frank Caggiano
> caggiano@atlantic.net
> http://www.atlantic.net/~caggiano

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