2009/3/24 Joshua Fox <joshuat...@gmail.com>:
>> Why "presumably with side effects?"
> Otherwise you would use repeat. A pure function returns the same value
> every time, so there is no reason to call it repeatedly.
Yup, that makes sense.
Random numbers are side-effecting (is that the right term?) and I was
trying to think about the (simple) problem in a pure functional way
which was getting my simple brain all confused!
Thanks to both of you for helping me see sense!
Cheers,
Paul.
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