Random number generator

[Stefan Reich]

That's definitely not a message for the bugs list :-)

Please have a look at this page: 
http://www.zvon.org/other/haskell/Outputrandom/getStdRandom_f.html

It gives the correct signature for drawInt as you defined it: Int -> Int 
-> IO Int

The signature you gave doesn't work because it specifies a pure function 
- for the same set of arguments, it must always produce the same result.

How many ints do you want to generate? I don't think it is possible to 
generate an infinite lazy list in this case because this interferes with 
monad semantics. If you want a fixed number of random ints, try this:

drawInts :: Int -> Int -> Int -> IO [Int]
drawInts num x y = sequence (replicate num (getStdRandom (randomR (x,y))))

-Stefan

Gwoing Yu wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I need some assistances in calling random number generator using 6.0.1 
> haskell compiler. To return a list of random int [Int], I have tried  
> the following:
>  
> drawInt :: Int->Int -> [Int]
> drawInt x y =  getStdRandom (randomRs (x,y))
>  
> It has a type error. I would appreciate if you know how to fix it.
>  
> Thank you in advance.
>  
> Tina Yu
> http://www.improvise.ws <http://www.improvise.ws/>