On Jan 26, 2008 7:01 PM, Yitzchak Gale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip explanation]
The documentation in System.Random is a bit misleading.
It says the read instance of StdGen has the following properties:
It guarantees to succeed on any string... The word read should
really be Read instead. It
Hi all,
According to
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/random/System-Random.html#t%3AStdGen
the Read StdGen instance should never fail. However, in GHC 6.8.2, it
appears to:
ghci
GHCi, version 6.8.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help
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Denis Bueno wrote:
the Read StdGen instance should never fail. However, in GHC 6.8.2, it
appears to:
It first fails for me on strings of length seven.
You need to use fst . head . reads instead of read.
The Read instance of StdGen only uses part of the string,
and politely gives you back the
