“Sampling” some Code
You find things in the oddest places.
This dev.to post is all about taking notes, with code comments as a specific case. I quite liked it, although I had minor quibbles.
def createColor
# Lists all possible integers that can be use in a valid hex code
hexadecimalIntegers = ["0","1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","a","b","c","d","e","f"]
# Randomly get 6 items from the hexadecimalIntegers array, then join them together at each character
color = hexadecimalIntegers.sample(6).join("")
# Puts hex color
"Your new hex color is ##{color}"
end
I could go into my issues here, but it’s a story for another time. I will instead point out this bit: color = hexadecimalIntegers.sample(6).join("")
Specifically, hexadecimalIntegers.sample(6)
sample is a method for Ruby arrays (lists?) that gives you one or more entries from the array. From testing, it seems that it won’t give you repeated values; given the hexidecimal examples, it pulls 'A' from the list when sampled, so you can get ['A','B'] from hexadecimalIntegers.sample(2), but not ['A','A'].
There are times when I’d want that behavior, sure. There are also times when I wouldn’t, where ['0','0','0','0','0','0'] would become the blackest of blacks RGB has to offer and I want that possibility.
MetaCPAN tells me it’s in List::MoreUtils, and looking in issues in List::AllUtils tells me that LAU can’t just snag all LMU’s functions, because LMU is licensed differently.
But I haven’t looked at LMU code and I have written some functions, so I’ll see about bringing sample to that project.