Re: [go-nuts] Re: Understanding the doc (why can't I?)

2018-10-15 Thread Neil Higgins
Ok, Dan. With what you have told me, I acknowledge that shuffling is what it’s all about, so the metaphysics matches the physics on this case. So the problem is on my side: Probably a deficit in fluency with idiomatic code. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Understanding the doc (why can't I?)

2018-10-15 Thread Neil Higgins
I would ascribe metaphysicality to the current name, and comprehensibility to a more accurate name. In this case, “shuffling” is just an example of what can be done. Abstraction is all very nice, until any applied meaning is completely lost in mumbo-jumbo. Neil Higgins (iPhone) higgins-dem

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Understanding the doc (why can't I?)

2018-10-15 Thread Neil Higgins
So as well as getting rid of the euphemistic name, the documentation should simply say that it delivers n pairs of random numbers in the relevant range to a user-defined function. Neil Higgins (iPhone) higgins-dem...@bigpond.com > On 16 Oct 2018, at 8:31 am, Neil Higgins <1955ne...@gma

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Understanding the doc (why can't I?)

2018-10-15 Thread Neil Higgins
you don't need to know how things > work under the hood either. > > If that overly wordy version helps? > > Chris >> On Monday, 15 October 2018 15:06:58 UTC+1, Neil Higgins wrote: >> Here's the doc for shuffle in math/random: >> >> func Shuffl