Re: array_random

On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 at 15:26, Aleksander Alekseev
<aleksander(at)tigerdata(dot)com> wrote:
>
> The proposed function seems to do two things at a time - generating
> random values and transforming them into an array of desired
> dimensions. Generally we try to avoid such interfaces. Can you think
> of something like array_transform() / array_reshape() that takes an
> arbitrary single-dimension array and modifies it?

That's a good point. Arguably, creating a simple 1-D array of random
values is trivial enough to leave to users, and there isn't sufficient
demand to justify creating core functions for it.

OTOH, creating multi-dimensional arrays (of any values, not just
random) is harder. Perhaps there is an argument for in-core functions
to make that easier, though I'm not sure how many people actually use
multi-dimensional arrays. In any case, that seems like a separate
discussion for a new thread, if there's demand.

Regards,
Dean