subject:"\[Haskell\-cafe\] IO Put confusion"

Re: [Haskell-cafe] IO Put confusion

2010-09-16 Thread Ben Millwood

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Chad Scherrer chad.scher...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I need to be able to use strict bytestrings to efficiently build a lazy bytestring, so I'm using putByteString in Data.Binary. But I also need random numbers, so I'm using mwc-random. I end up in the IO Put

[Haskell-cafe] IO Put confusion

2010-09-14 Thread Chad Scherrer

Hello, I need to be able to use strict bytestrings to efficiently build a lazy bytestring, so I'm using putByteString in Data.Binary. But I also need random numbers, so I'm using mwc-random. I end up in the IO Put monad, and it's giving me some issues. To build a random document, I need a random