Yikes. Sorry about the ressends... my email client kept dying and I
thought the mail was lost. Guess not. :-)
Trey
In a message dated Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Trey Harris writes:
> 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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