Jacinta wrote:
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.
http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/random.html to include the library you'll need: import Random at the top of your module. Using the routines is a bit fiddly, so you might need to experiment for a while. Here's a start: dice = do { x <- getStdRandom (randomR (1::Int,6)) ; print x}
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.
I think the Haskell cafe is a fair place for such questions. I think you are from Melbourne Uni, if so we have a local newsgroup called cs.programming that you can also try. Some local Haskell people (like me) read it all the time. Cheers, Bernie.