Re: lynx-dev Options, V.Links, random (was: patch 6 - UI Pages)

[Klaus Weide]

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Henry Nelson wrote:

> > collision.  Creating names from this pool in pseudo-random fashion
> > means that, as soon as you have generated two filenames, there is some
> > chance that they are the same - and the more names you generate, the
> 
> I thought there was a way to randomly pick from a declining pool, i.e.,
> first choice is 1 out of 10000, second choice is 1 out of 9999, and so
> on.

Only if you keep a list of all choices taken so far.

> When you take the last card, you reshuffle the deck.

More like, game's over.

   Klasu