On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Iain Barnett wrote:
Hi, I have a function, that produces a random number between two given numbers rand :: Int -> Int -> IO Int rand low high = getStdRandom (randomR (low,high))
If you only need arbitrary numbers, not really random ones, you should stay away from IO:
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