How about adding the $rantok identifier?

So $rantok(%var,32) is the same as $gettok(%var,$rand(1,$numtok(%var,32)),32)

It picks a random token like $rantok(lol lol2 lol3,32) = lol or $rantok(lol lol2 lol3,32) = lol3

For now....

alias rantok { if ($isid) { return $gettok($1,$rand(1,$numtok($1,$2)),$2) } | :error }

That error handler does nothing...

isnt that the point?

No, I mean it does nothing, as in the same thing would happen even if it wasn't there. It doesn't reset the error or anything (and there's no reason you'd want it to), it just takes up 13 bytes on a harddisk. Won't somebody please think of the bytes!

Poor bytes

There are many other $tok's that can also be done without being built-in. For example, $numtok(..,32) is the same as $gettok(..,0,32).

So it's not about the bytes.