RE: "Typo" in Haskell 98 Random library

[Tom Pledger]

Simon Peyton-Jones writes:
 > [...]
 > 
 > Yes, that's a possible alternative. The current story says
 > "at least 30 bits"; you are suggesting [minBound..maxBound].
 > In effect, you would mandate that every generator must have
 > genRange g = (minBound,msxBound).
 > 
 > Seems like a reasonable alternative.  Comments?

That would affect the performance of some generators, by forcing them
to use Integer internally, instead of Int.  All the subtractive
generators I've seen (all 2 of them) depend on using numbers
internally, which have twice the range of the generated numbers.

Regards,
Tom