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S'alright a pure functional toaster just spits out yer bread untoasted.

• DougWebb 11y ago
  A pure functional toaster would work one of two ways: 1) It would just be a solid box with no openings. Inside would be full of wondrous magic, but interacting with the outside world involves side-effects so interaction would not be allowed. 2) It would have a glass panel on the side, which you'd hold your untoasted bread against. A slice of toasted bread would pop out of the top. You'd never know where it came from, but you'd be happy that your original slice hasn't been modified.
  • arethuza 11y ago
    Keep going, I want to hear how monads get mapped into the world of toast. :-)
    • mchaver 11y ago
      You can think of monads as abstractions that may or may not return toasted objects.
      • arethuza 11y ago
        So maybe toast?
  • lrc 11y ago
    Only for a moment. An extensible claw would fly out, grab the untoasted bread from your hand and fling it into the garbage can, after a brief but unpredicatable interval.