Hi there, thanks for this lovely library! I have grand plans to (eventually) incorporate procedural generation via wavefunction collapse into https://github.com/swarm-game/swarm/ (it currently has procedural generation but only based on Perlin noise) . However, I was reading the documentation today, and it seems like I want something in betweenHolmes and Watson:
I do want to generate "natural-looking" procedurally generated things, so I definitely want the random shuffling that the Holmes monad does. Besides just generating more natural-looking things, I also don't want to get the same solution every time.
However, because I am generating infinite worlds and only dynamically generating/loading the parts of the world that are actually explored, the generation needs to be deterministic (based on a seed value), like Minecraft. I also just really don't want to introduce IO.
So I would really like a monad that (1) is built over ST, but (2) does random shuffling based on a seeded PRNG. This seems like it should be totally possible in theory --- from what I can tell Holmes is implemented in terms of shuffle from hedgehog, which has type MonadGen m => [a] -> m [a] and does not itself depend on IO in any way --- the IO only comes in from the use of sample :: MonadIO m => Gen a -> m a, which is one convenient way to run a MonadGen computation but not the only way.
Curious to hear what you think about the possibility of exposing a slightly different API which allows this. I'd be very happy to try to submit a PR if you think it seems reasonable. I saw elsewhere that you mentioned working on a rewrite of this library, so I'm not quite sure what the status is.
Hi there, thanks for this lovely library! I have grand plans to (eventually) incorporate procedural generation via wavefunction collapse into https://github.com/swarm-game/swarm/ (it currently has procedural generation but only based on Perlin noise) . However, I was reading the documentation today, and it seems like I want something in between
HolmesandWatson:Holmesmonad does. Besides just generating more natural-looking things, I also don't want to get the same solution every time.IO.So I would really like a monad that (1) is built over
ST, but (2) does random shuffling based on a seeded PRNG. This seems like it should be totally possible in theory --- from what I can tellHolmesis implemented in terms ofshufflefromhedgehog, which has typeMonadGen m => [a] -> m [a]and does not itself depend onIOin any way --- theIOonly comes in from the use ofsample :: MonadIO m => Gen a -> m a, which is one convenient way to run aMonadGencomputation but not the only way.Curious to hear what you think about the possibility of exposing a slightly different API which allows this. I'd be very happy to try to submit a PR if you think it seems reasonable. I saw elsewhere that you mentioned working on a rewrite of this library, so I'm not quite sure what the status is.