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

Am Freitag, 5. September 2008 21:51 schrieb C.M.Brown:

It's certainly possibly to define or use State in a way that it gives the impression of modifying a global state, it therefore having a side-effect.

Chris.

Can you give an example? I don't see how that can be done using Control.Monad.State(.Strict).State, unless invocations of put or modify are considered side effects. Thanks, Daniel