On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Ian Lynagh
I approve, but what do you propose to do for haskell98:Random?
Someone (me?) should make a matching proposal to Haskell' once we have decided on a reasonable way forward. WRT H98, modifying the Haskell98 library to have an upper bound on random 1.0.x would make sense. Having two incompatible classes is rather inescapable when one is in a standard and the other is its replacement. Henning said:
class StraightRandomGen g where System.Random.next :: g -> (Int, g) System.Random.genRange :: g -> (Int, Int)
class StraightRandomGen g => RandomGen g where
I favor a clean break with the past and small flurry of fixing activity. The more concessions made in the base libraries the odder all libraries will feel. If, despite me, we do decide on these classes could the new one at least be called "BasicRandomGen" or "FundamentalRandomGen"? Cheers, Thomas