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Overwriting the array in place (Score:2)

by Juerd (1796)

@array.=pick(*);

This might even be optimized and actually shuffle the elements within the array.
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  by Ovid (2709) on 2009.01.12 16:01 (#66813) Homepage Journal
  
  Yeah, I'm discovering that as I'm writing tests for my $string.trim function (and it looks like it will be accepted as part of core Perl 6! Yay! :)
  
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