Feature request(?): change probabilities

[shirish93]

Hello,

I checked the documentation and was unable to find it, so this is probably a feature request. Does it make sense to add a feature to mess around with the likelihood of certain tokens? For example, if one wanted to make a faux astrology bot (not to give you any ideas, @dariusk ), and wanted to use some tokens ("Mars", "Venus") more than others?

THANKS!

Shirish

[dariusk]

@shirish93 What I would do is fake it by putting the same token multiple times.

[a, a, b, b, c, d, e] is not Tracery but illustrates what I'm talking about -- a and b are 2x as likely as c or d or e.

[Johnicholas]

I like using a function that takes a map and returns the repeated array that Darius mentions.

function weighted(dict) { var out = [] for (var key in dict) { for (var i = 0; i < dict[key]; i++) { out.push(key) } } return out }

weighted({a: 2, b: 2, c: 1, d: 1, e: 1})

returns

[a, a, b, b, c, d, e]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 8:59 PM Darius Kazemi notifications@github.com wrote:

@shirish93 https://github.com/shirish93 What I would do is fake it by putting the same token multiple times.

[a, a, b, b, c, d, e] is not Tracery but illustrates what I'm talking about -- a and b are 2x as likely as c or d or e.

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[shirish93]

Fair. Closing the issue. Thanks everyone!