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I believe the motivation is that it eschews a lot of convenient crutches that would defeat the purpose of using nix (e.g. impurity) and adds a lot of convenient
by clhodapp 8y ago
I believe the motivation is that it eschews a lot of convenient crutches that would defeat the purpose of using nix (e.g. impurity) and adds a lot of convenient crutches that don't (e.g. a lot of implicit coercion for derivations).
- rekado 8y agoPurity is a property of the functional methodology, not of the language. You don't need to use an effect-free language when operating in an environment that renders most effects void.