Random value from array? (Also: ™Bells+Whistles)

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Oh yes, choose is great. I've used that.

d1 $ s "rave2*8" # n (choose [1, 2, 3]) # cut "1"

Your solution here is great. Thank you so much. Very useful and superFunzees to mess around w/:

d1 $ s "rave2*8" # n (choose $ concat $ zipWith replicate [1, 2, 3] [1, 2, 3]) # cut "1"

Much more elegant than my clunky workaround that I've been using up until now:

d1 $ s "rave2*8" # n (choose [1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3]) # cut "1"

Less chars and easy to read w/ that particular example but possibly infinitely more amount of chars and definitely harder to read with very large arrays.

This bit went over my head. It looks cool though:

let randperm t xs = pxs !! (floor $ timeToRand t * (fromIntegral $ length pxs)) where pxs = permutations xs

I got it to evaluate ok and I can also run randperm 0 ["a", "b", "c"] ok. But that last bit about turning the list into a pattern I would love to be able to do on my own but sadly I lack the experience w/ Haskell.

I tried looking up mentions of listtoPat in Learn you a Haskell.

I found some mentions of it here: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tidal-0.2/src/Pattern.hs

I dunno, could @bgold or someone else maybe help me out some more?