An easy way to implement 'reverse' and 'shuffle' without javascript

helicoptur · February 23, 2021, 1:42am

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Edit: Added script for shuffle block as well

pumpkinhead · February 23, 2021, 3:15am

Well this way doesn't require needing two custom blocks

bh · February 23, 2021, 7:56am

I think this is the coolest way! No map, no custom blocks (except this one of course).

But in 6.6 (now in dev) reverse is a primitive. :~)

18001767679 · February 23, 2021, 8:55am

Yes.Hyperblocks!

helicoptur · February 23, 2021, 8:03pm

Yes, but then this happens:

bh · February 24, 2021, 2:01am

Oh. Yeah. That's because NUMBERS FROM works in big-to-little order (as well as little-to-big). In the APL library there's a version that reports an empty list in that case.