[swift-evolution] [Proposal] Random Unification

[Martin Waitz]

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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