12 Oct
2009
12 Oct
'09
12:53 a.m.
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 08:17:48PM -0400, Reid Barton wrote:
It seems that the definition of split in System.Random is not really satisfactory.
For the curious, the reason for the asymmetry between fst . split and snd . split is that the RNG states produced by mkStdGen have varying first component but second component (virtually) always equal to 1. For full details see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3575 Regards, Reid Barton