[Haskell-cafe] More on the random idea

[Isaac Dupree]

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Isaac Dupree wrote:
> "The expression is bound to a random top level identifier (harmless to
> guess)"
> 
> What about the non-recursive
> 
> case ...expr... of x -> take 2048 (show x)
> 
> this way expr can't refer to x (it doesn't at all need to be randomly
> generated this way) and definitely can't bind other things like take and
> show (they probably should be qualified anyway)

er, wait, I'm confused. Is it top-level? If not, it could just be

take 2048 (show ( ...expr... ))

and it doesn't look top-level to me from the lambdabot code in
scripts/RunPlugs.hs

Isaac
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