Hi!
I'm very much a beginning programmer, studying Haskell. I have two questions -
Great! Beginners are very welcome!
Firstly, I am trying to generate random numbers in Haskell, but although I have found a 'random' library on www.zvon.org, I don't really know how to include library functions, and the documentation given doesn't really tell me the effective difference between all the functions provided in the library. In another interesting development, I couldn't find any mention of this library in haskell.org's list of libraries.
You want to put 'import Random' at the top of your program. A bit of a warning, though: using random numbers isn't entirely straightforward in Haskell, due to the fact that it is a pure language (which means that you cannot have a function like 'randomInt :: () -> Int' which will return a random integer -- this is because any call to this function must always return the same result).
Secondly, but perhaps more importantly, is there a more 'beginnerish' list that I should be addressing this to? I've been following discussions on this one and they don't seem to be at quite this level.
This list is appropriate. -- Hal Daume III | hdaume@isi.edu "Arrest this man, he talks in maths." | www.isi.edu/~hdaume