On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 05:07:04PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
It's not clear to me that this really makes sense in general.
It's hard to say without knowing what you're doing, but I think you'd be better off just calling mkMyRandomGen, perhaps even taking a tuple rather than a list so you know you have the right number of bits.
Incidentally, you sound like you want Int32 rather than Int; Int is only guaranteed to be 29 bits, and today may be either 32 or 64 bits depending on what platform you are on.
Thanks for the reply. I think that you have perhaps misunderstood my argument, but on trying to explain it a second time I came to the conclusion that it indeed doesn't make sense, which of course may have been a contributing factor to its not being understood. Best wishes, Frederik -- http://ofb.net/~frederik/