On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 17:07, James Cook <mo...@deepbondi.net> wrote:
> On Aug 16, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Evan Laforge wrote: > > I've noticed there's a convention to put modules having to deal with > > randomness into System.Random. I thought System was for OS > > interaction? Granted getting a random seed usually means going to the > > OS, but isn't the rest of it, like generating random sequences, > > distributions, selecting based on probability, shuffling, etc. all > > non-OS related algorithms? > > System definitely does seem like an odd choice. In most cases the only > interaction any PRNG, even when accessed via the FFI, has with the "system" > is - as you say - to get an initial seed value for a global instance. > I'd be tempted to guess that the whole reason it's under System is the IO component. -- brandon s allbery allber...@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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