[Haskell-cafe] Conflict with Network.CGI and System.Random

[william murphy]

Hello all,

I'm trying to write a program to be converted into a cgi file using
Network.CGI and Text.Xhtml, and I want to have random numbers in it. Sounds
simple, but I need to call the global random generator (I think) and I can't
do that in the CGI block, i.e.

cgiTMain = do
            gen <- getStdGen
            ...

simply doesn't work, nor an variation of calling a function in the
cgiTMainblock with a type of IO(), which is what I need to get the
generator. Is it
impossible both to write a program using Network.CGI and have random values?
That seems very limiting, the people that wrote Haskell were smarter than
that...

Thanks,

Will
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