Select a random object in a Cocoa collection?

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TheBum Mac Enthusiast Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: McKinney, TX Status: Offline	Sep 27, 2001, 10:59 AM
	I am developing an application where I want to randomly select an object from a collection. My initial instinct was to use an NSMutableArray and use random() to generate an index. As I was looking through the Cocoa frameworks, I came across the NSSet class and its anyObject method that would appear, at first glance, to do what I want. I'd like to keep with the Cocoa frameworks whereever possible, so my question is this: How random is NSSet's anyObject method, i.e. would I get much better randomness using random() and an NSMutableArray? TIA.