Scribe

scribe.go

// tree
// .
// ├── bin
// │   └── scribe
// └── src
//    └── scribe
//        └── scribe.go

// $ gb build all; bin/scribe
// Jesse

package main
import "os"
import "fmt"
import "time"
import "bufio"
import "math/rand"

func main() {

    var names []string
    inFile, _ := os.Open("names")
    defer inFile.Close()
    scanner := bufio.NewScanner(inFile)
    scanner.Split(bufio.ScanLines)

    for scanner.Scan() { names = append(names, scanner.Text()) }

    rand.Seed(time.Now().UTC().UnixNano())
    fmt.Println(names[rand.Intn(len(names))])
}

you can simplify the import

import (
  "os"
  "fmt"
  "time"
  "bufio"
  "math/rand"
)

to be idiomatic (but kinda silly for this use case) you might want to check the err return from os.Open() and maybe panic. Also, newline inside a for block 😃

thanks that all makes sense