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"
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 bac
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
Loading package base ... linking ...
