{-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses, UndecidableInstances #-}

{- |
Copyright    : 2006-2007 Cale Gibbard, Russell O'Connor, Dan Doel, Remi Turk, Eric Kidd.
License      : OtherLicense
Stability    : experimental
Portability  : non-portable (multi-parameter type classes, undecidable instances)

A type class for random number generation monads.  See
<http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/NewMonads/MonadRandom> for the original
version of this code.

Instances of this type class include 'Control.Monad.Random.Rand' and
monads created using 'Control.Monad.Random.RandT'.

-}

module Control.Monad.Random.Class (
    MonadRandom,
    getRandom,
    getRandomR,
    getRandoms,
    getRandomRs,
    ) where

import System.Random

-- | An interface to random number generation monads.
class (Monad m) => MonadRandom m where
    -- | Return a randomly-selected value of type @a@.  See
    -- 'System.Random.random' for details.
    getRandom :: (Random a) => m a
    -- | Return an infinite stream of random values of type @a@.  See
    -- 'System.Random.randoms' for details.
    getRandoms :: (Random a) => m [a]
    -- | Return a randomly-selected value of type @a@ in the range
    -- /(lo,hi)/.  See 'System.Random.randomR' for details.
    getRandomR :: (Random a) => (a,a) -> m a
    -- | Return an infinite stream of randomly-selected value of type @a@
    -- in the range /(lo,hi)/.  See 'System.Random.randomRs' for details.
    getRandomRs :: (Random a) => (a,a) -> m [a]