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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

We're not savages, we use structural sharing in our data structures. :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Now, I don't functional (at all), but if you call a function with no parameters, doesn't it imply side effects?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean it could just always return the same thing...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would think that role is filled by constants.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

where we're going, constants are just functions

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Java 2: you can program anything you want but it has to be a function.