Posted by Geoff Berrow on 06/14/05 13:22

I noticed that Message-ID: <av4ta1h08up98hikop6q8jldgsihobqkpn@4ax.com>
from Ewoud Dronkert contained the following:

>On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:54:08 +0100, Geoff Berrow wrote:
>> for($i=1;$i<50;$i++){
>> $balls[]=$i;
>> }
>
>See http://php.net/range

Code is from a course I run and it's a good idea to get the students
used to using loops
>
>> for($i=0;$i<6;$i++){
>> $key=array_rand($balls);
>> $ballschosen[]=$balls[$key];
>> unset($balls[$key]);
>> }
>
>See http://php.net/shuffle

For some reason I've never been able to get shuffle to work properly.
>
>> asort($ballschosen);
>
>Why use asort when you don't use the keys? See http://php.net/asort

Seemed like a good idea at the time :)
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