Random function

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Ehsan
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Random function

Post by Ehsan » Sun Aug 26, 2012 12:42 am

Hi everyone . I want to make an array inside a struct and randomly generate initial states.

sylwester
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Re: Random function

Post by sylwester » Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:20 am

Too vague for me. What dialect are you implementing this in and what have you tried so far?
A general hunch is that you need to create the array then traverse it using a random function to give each slot a value. The fact that the array is in a struct is not very relevant.
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nuntius
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Re: Random function

Post by nuntius » Mon Aug 27, 2012 4:37 pm

If you are using defstruct, you will need to create a separate function to initialize the contents. If you are using defclass, then you can use "(defmethod initialize-instance :after" to do the initialization.

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