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Re: Noob evaluation question

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg74232] Re: Noob evaluation question
• From: "heycarnut" <heycarnut at gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:58:01 -0500 (EST)
• References: <et54tf$b7m$1@smc.vnet.net><et8cqo$obg$1@smc.vnet.net>

Thanks for all the answers!
The example we gave was contrived, as I said, so obviously we would
use Range[Random...]] if the example
was doing something real!

We did of course just evaluate the random before the evaluation of the
Position.

My question was not clear enough, I think. We were just curious if
there was a way to keep the statement 'purely functional', and use
something akin to hold/release to freeze the first value returned by
the Random. The answer appears to be no, matching our initial gut
feeling, though chris' answer comes close with using a helper function
- familiar to us from Lisp.

Thanks again, all!

Rob