10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 in PHP (or anything else, for that matter)

Question

Just had a 'spirited' conversation with a co-worker about the succinctness of the following BASIC statement:

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

It's the title of this book, and will simply print a sequence of / and \ characters, alternating between the two randomly, resulting in a pattern similar to this:

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Being of a PHP proclivity, we wondered what the most compact way of writing the same thing in PHP would be, and came up with this:

while(1) { echo chr(47 + 45 * rand(0,1)); }

chr(47) is a / character, and chr(92) is a \. So the statement echo chr(47 + 45 * rand(0,1)); will randomly alternate between the two, ad nauseam.

In a language of your choosing, write the shortest program or function to output an infinite random sequence of \ and / characters, where each character has an equal probability of being chosen.

Answer 1

Rust, 143 bytes, std only

use std::hash::*;fn main(){loop{print!("{}",b"/\\"[std::collections::hash_map::RandomState::new().build_hasher().finish()as usize%2]as char);}}

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This mess is because the Rust stdlib (at the time of writing) has no "proper" RNG API. So, I had to use the workaround described here to get a random number.