Re: [Haskell-beginners] [Haskell-cafe] select :: [(Float, a)] -> a -- Weighted stochastic selection - help?

Some Monads (such as State and IO) allow side effects and are therefore not pure. HTH, Chris. On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Andrew Wagner wrote:

[snip] ... in a purely functional way, i.e. no monads. [snip]

Err, what? Monads aren't purely functional? _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners