To partial apply a function use the invocation syntax:
(function initial_arg1 initial_arg2 ...)
The documentation for Random suggests using system time for creating seeds but this is not available in the standard runtime and even if it was a Github comment suggests it doesn't sufficient spread itself across the bit space to give a good seed.
The recommended way is to use native Javascript's Math.random
and pass it via a port.
Math.random() * Math.pow(2,32)
Elm doesn't have access to the system clock or even the initialisation time of the runtime.
As of 0.17 elm-reactor cannot stub out ports that are required by the program it is running.
The correct statement to extract a value from a Random.Generator
is Random.step
.