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This isn't a functional technique! Functional languages remove assignments and mutable variables. Not branches.

• BoppreH 16y ago
  Branches too. The only conditionals I've seen in functional programming are equivalent to the ternary operator. Unless I'm absurdly wrong, which can happen.
  • davidw 16y ago
    The program still branches (decides which code path to follow) - it just does it with a different mechanism, for instance pattern matching.
    • BoppreH 16y ago
      Yes, pattern matching fits the bill, thanks.
  • ori_b 16y ago
    I think codesearch can answer you: http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=if+lang%3Ahaskell http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=if+lang%3Ahaskell
    • BoppreH 16y ago
      "if"s in Haskell work exactly like the ternary operators, just as I said. I was using the article's differentiation of "branching" and "microbranching" and stating that I haven't seen the former in functional languages. The link provided doesn't contradict any of this, actually it does quite the opposite.