[LA.pm] next time we need to give away a book...

[Ofer Nave]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Robert Spier wrote:

> > http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/Acme-PM-Chicago-0.01/Chicago.pm
> > >From the SYNOPSIS:
> > "We here in Chicago.PM have the monthly problem of how to give away books. 
> > Names from a hat? Bizarre statistical extraction from Lembark? Who can 
> > tell? We decided once and for all to have ONE WAY to do it."
> 
> This boils down to:
> 
> sub random_name {
>     my @names = @_;
> 
>     return $names[rand @names];
> }

I know.  :)

> which is really less interesting than what we have now.

And I agree!  But I thought ya'll might be amused that someone in Chicago 
actually created a function for that express purpose, despite it being 
implemented in the most obvious fashion.

-ofer