r10866: Automated commit for Debian build of reversi upstream-version-1.0.14

[reversi.git] / utils.lisp

diff --git a/utils.lisp b/utils.lisp
index 8a3ac40577d047ad9180359642a13ebdab05ab51..1dfa25c23e0d9bf2f04e30accb16d635d50eae12 100644 (file)
--- a/utils.lisp
+++ b/utils.lisp
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 ;;;;  Programer:      Kevin M. Rosenberg
 ;;;;  Date Started:   1 Nov 2001
 ;;;;
-;;;; $Id: utils.lisp,v 1.5 2003/06/12 12:42:13 kevin Exp $
+;;;; $Id$
 ;;;;
 ;;;; This file is Copyright (c) 2001-2003 by Kevin M. Rosenberg 
 ;;;;
@@ -42,9 +42,10 @@
   Like mapcon, but uses append instead of nconc."
   (apply #'append (mapcar fn list)))
 
-(defun random-elt (seq) 
-  "Pick a random element out of a sequence."
-  (elt seq (random (length seq))))
+(defun random-nth (list)
+  (declare (list list))
+  "Pick a random element out of a list."
+  (nth (random (length list)) list))
 
 (defun concat-symbol (&rest args)
   "Concatenate symbols or strings to form an interned symbol"