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From: quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale)
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Subject: shuffling a list
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What is the best way to shuffle a list in a functional language?
It is easy to shuffle an array fairly, and in Scheme I would use
list->vector, shuffle the vector, and use vector->list.

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Doug Quale