Re: [Haskell-cafe] why is Random in System?

Yeah, fair enough about getting the seed. I think I like the idea of breaking them into System.Entropy and then Random or Data.Random. It feels odd to stick pure algorithm packages, which simply accept a random seed or stream from elsewhere, under System.Random. There are a fair number of alternate implementations on hackage which suggests people aren't satisfied with the stdlib one but haven't quite settled down on a standard alternative. James Cook, good point about Data. I suppose that's also why it seems to be the catch all for everything in haskell.