pick proc

Format

• pick(Val1,Val2,...)
• pick(List)

Returns

One of the given values randomly chosen.

Randomly chooses an item from a list or from the arguments provided. If only one argument is included and it is a list, then the item is chosen from that list.

When not using the list form, you can make a particular value more or less likely to be chosen by providing a relative probability like this:

prob(P); Val
  Or
P; Val

A value for P of 200 makes it twice as likely as the norm, 50 half as likely, and so on.

obj/food
  verb/eat()
    usr << pick (
        "[usr] eats \a [src].",
      prob(50)
        "[usr] devours \a [src].",
      prob(25)
       "[usr] wolfs down \a [src]."
    )
    del(src)

There is no analogous weighted format for the list version of this proc.

See also