Hi,
>>> This is redundant. In order to pick a random element, you’re saying I
>>> should have to do “Int.random(0 ..< 10)”? The redundancy here is that I
>>> have to specify Int twice: once for the “.random” call, and again for the
>>> type of the range. We can do better than that.
>
> I don’t see how this is redundant—do you mean that you’d need to write out
> the type name instead of writing `(0..<10).random()!`? I continue to be of
> the opinion that picking a random integer/floating-point value/Boolean and
> picking a random element from a collection are two different operations.
Well, I don‘t see a big difference beteeen ranges and collections here. We can
support both with the same syntax:
let a = random.draw(from: 1...3)
let b = random.draw(from: [1, 2, 3])
— Martin
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