Programming

Elm

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last posted Oct. 2, 2016, 9:53 a.m.
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To partial apply a function use the invocation syntax:

(function initial_arg1 initial_arg2 ...)
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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)
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Elm doesn't have access to the system clock or even the initialisation time of the runtime.

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As of 0.17 elm-reactor cannot stub out ports that are required by the program it is running.

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The correct statement to extract a value from a Random.Generator is Random.step.