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author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-01-04 22:56:23 +0000 |
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committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-01-04 22:56:23 +0000 |
commit | 06a5f41f0431df02a9cd266d1e2a88d3625b083b (patch) | |
tree | 08552950257d315bd7daa75a0c14a8f7a5665dec /pod/perlfaq4.pod | |
parent | 466bafcd4432239968dcf0c427d25b79b1833243 (diff) | |
download | perl-06a5f41f0431df02a9cd266d1e2a88d3625b083b.tar.gz |
A bit of "perl.com" cleanup.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14083
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diff --git a/pod/perlfaq4.pod b/pod/perlfaq4.pod index 08c76513fe..abbb9a03cb 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq4.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq4.pod @@ -333,10 +333,11 @@ call C<srand> more than once--you make your numbers less random, rather than more. Computers are good at being predictable and bad at being random -(despite appearances caused by bugs in your programs :-). -http://www.cpan.org/doc/FMTEYEWTK/random , courtesy of Tom -Phoenix, talks more about this. John von Neumann said, ``Anyone who -attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of +(despite appearances caused by bugs in your programs :-). see the +F<random> artitcle in the "Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know" +collection in http://www.cpan.org/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz , courtesy of +Tom Phoenix, talks more about this. John von Neumann said, ``Anyone +who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.'' If you want numbers that are more random than C<rand> with C<srand> @@ -1473,8 +1474,9 @@ If you need to sort on several fields, the following paradigm is useful. This can be conveniently combined with precalculation of keys as given above. -See http://www.cpan.org/doc/FMTEYEWTK/sort.html for more about -this approach. +See the F<sort> artitcle article in the "Far More Than You Ever Wanted +To Know" collection in http://www.cpan.org/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz for +more about this approach. See also the question below on sorting hashes. |