Re^3: Functional shuffle

[tall_man]

in reply to Re^2: Functional shuffle
in thread Functional shuffle

Indeed a "functional shuffle" is a contradiction in terms. In functional programming, if you give a function the same inputs you must get the same outputs. Rand is resetting a seed somewhere, which is a disallowed side-effect in a pure functional program. However, one could define a shuffle that took a list of random numbers from some outside source as an input. The paper referenced by the OP does this.