[Haskell-cafe] Monad Stack - State + Rand?

[Christopher Howard]

Hi. I'm working through "Haskell Design Patterns" and got inspired to
try to create my first monad stack. What I really wanted though (not
shown in the book) was to combine State and Rand. I daresay I got
something to compile:

walk :: RandomGen g => StateT (Float, Float) (Rand g) (Float, Float)
walk = do (x, y) <- get
          put (x + 1, y + 1)
          get >>= return

However, the moment I try to insert a getRandomR or something in it, I
get an error

Could not deduce (MonadRandom (StateT (Float, Float) (Rand g)))
      arising from a use of `getRandomR' <...snip...>
add an instance declaration for
      (MonadRandom (StateT (Float, Float) (Rand g)))

I see there are instances

MonadRandom m => MonadRandom (StateT s m)
RandomGen g => MonadRandom (Rand g)

in Control.Monad.Random.Class, so I am not quite sure what is expected
of me.



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