Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: System.Random StdGen read fails on some strings? [also continues: Random/StdGen/read: there is something unclear (or misunderstood!)]

On 3/19/07, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

Zara

Good point. It's a bit stupid that 'read' fails utterly on strings shorter than 6.

I don't thin StdRandom has an "owner" at the moment. There's a process for proposing library changes, described under "guidelines for developers" here

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Libraries_and_tools

That's the way to get your change adopted.

There's already a thread about this on the libraries list: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2007-March/007052.html Ian commented with a proposal for fixing it, and no one has followed up yet. That would probably be a good place to direct any more discussion. Cheers, Kirsten