There's a problem I've been struggling with for a long time... I need to build a function buildSample :: [A] -> State StdGen [(A,B,C)] given lookup functions f :: A -> [B] g :: A -> [C] The idea is to first draw randomly form the [A], then apply each lookup function and draw randomly from the result of each. It's actually slightly more complicated than this, since for the real problem I start with type [[A]], and want to map buildSample over these, and sample from the results. There seem to be so many ways to deal with random numbers in Haskell. After some false starts, I ended up doing something like sample :: [a] -> State StdGen [a] sample [] = return [] sample xs = do g <- get let (g', g'') = split g bds = (1, length xs) xArr = listArray bds xs put g'' return . map (xArr !) $ randomRs bds g' buildSample xs = sample $ do x <- xs y <- f x z <- g x return (x,y,z) This is really bad, since it builds a huge array of all the possibilities and then draws from that. Memory is way leaky right now. I'd like to be able to just have it apply the lookup functions as needed. Also, I'm still using GHC 6.6, so I don't have Control.Monad.State.Strict. Not sure how much difference this makes, but I guess I could just copy the source for that module if I need to. Any help is greatly appreciated! -- Chad Scherrer "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" -- Groucho Marx