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   Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 16:53:03 JST Annika Backstrom

   Possibly cursed #PHP for randomising a string from a set of elements:

   ```
   echo implode(' ', array_fill(0, 5, new class {
   function __toString() {
   return ['has', 'anyone', 'really', 'been',
   'far'][mt_rand(0, 4)];
   }
   }));
   ```

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 17:09:53 JST Annika Backstrom

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     • Elias Mårtenson

     @loke That's pretty terse! Thanks for sharing :)

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     Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 17:09:54 JST Elias Mårtenson

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     @annika Are the strings allowed to repeat?

     I will now do what all obnoxious language designers do, and that is to show how nice and concise an algorithm is in one's own language (this is a version where repeats are not allowed):

     (?⍨≢)⍛⊇ "has" "anyone" "really" "been" "far"
     

     Well, this only generates the permutation. Unfortunately, interspersing the spaces between the words is a bit ugly:

     ⊃,/↓,@\s,⍪ (?⍨≢)⍛⊇ "has" "anyone" "really" "been" "far"
     

     Example

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 20:39:15 JST Annika Backstrom

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     • Gina Peter Banyard

     @Girgias sorry you didn't like it :(

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     Gina Peter Banyard (girgias@phpc.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 20:39:16 JST Gina Peter Banyard

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     @annika what? At this point you might as well use a custom closure with array_sort after generating a random sequence of 5 numbers?

     Also can't this be done with the new Random extension?