[Haskell-cafe] random question

Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fischer at web.de
Wed Oct 7 17:51:23 EDT 2009


Am Mittwoch 07 Oktober 2009 23:28:59 schrieb Michael Mossey:
> Luke Palmer wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Michael Mossey <mpm at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> >> My thread about randomness got hijacked so I need to restate my
> >> remaining question here. Is it acceptable to write pure routines that
> >> use but do not return generators, and then call several of them from an
> >> IO monad with a generator obtained by several calls to newStdGen?
> >
> > It's gross.  What if you don't want IO as part of this computation?
>
> I don't quite follow your response. I want a program that initializes the
> generator from the global generator because I want different behavior every
> time I run it. So it will need IO. That's what I was trying to demonstrate.
> And I was wondering if one can get around the difficulty of passing the
> generator from call to call by using newStdGen in this way.
>
> Mike

Documentation says:

newStdGen :: IO StdGen
Applies split to the current global random generator, updates it with one of the results, 
and returns the other.

So it's as safe as split is.


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