[Haskell-cafe] In relation to shuffling

[Graham Klyne]

At 21:40 08/07/04 +0200, paolo veronelli wrote:
>Most of my imperative pieces of software find their answers by touching 
>around in some space
>of solutions and my favourite approximation algorithms use random 
>distributions.
>
>Is it haskell the wrong languages for those, as I'm obliged to code them 
>inside Monads
>loosing the benefits of lazyness?

I don't see any reason to sacrifice the benefits of laziness.

I can imagine a program that uses internally a random sequence of 
values.  Given a suitable pseudo-random value generator, it would be quite 
possible to write a pure function that accepts as one its parameters a seed 
for the P-R generator.

For many randomized algorithms, I think this should work fine, though I 
don't recommend this approach for cryptographic work.

#g


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