Pick random element
Pick random element is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.
How does one pick a random element from a list?
Haskell
Creating a custom function:
<lang haskell>import Random (randomRIO)
pick :: [a] -> IO a pick xs = randomRIO (0, length xs - 1) >>= return . (xs !!)
x <- pick [1 2 3]</lang>
Using the random-extras library:
<lang haskell>import Data.Random import Data.Random.Source.DevRandom import Data.Random.Extras
x <- runRVar (choice [1 2 3]) DevRandom</lang>
Smalltalk
<lang smalltalk>st> #(1 2 3) atRandom.</lang>