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[...] but without the distracting complexity of referential transparency? How could referential transparency possibly be distracting or complex?
by jjs 17y ago
[...] but without the distracting complexity of referential transparency?
How could referential transparency possibly be distracting or complex?
- camccann 17y agoIn exactly the same way that lazy evaluation makes program flow easy to follow. Or perhaps in the same way that the internet makes sarcasm easily recognized, I suppose...
- jjs 17y agoAha! So the value of your words depended on evaluating them in a sarcastic context. This lack of referential transparency made it difficult to reason about them at compile-time.