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Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software Development

• newaccount2021 4y ago
• caramboleyo 4y ago
  I do not understand the benefit of making a variable immutable. How do you do for loops then? If I am not mistaken PHP introduced the goto statement just recently.
  • schwartzworld 4y ago
    > How do you do for loops then? Take a look at JavaScript for-of loops or the various array methods in JS. As to the benefit of immutability, it removes a lot of the mental overhead from programming. Once a variable is set, you know it's value will never change. This eliminates lots of sources of bugs.
    • abudabi123 4y ago
      There are fewer syllables in "constant" than "immutable variable".
      • schwartzworld 4y ago
        Cool but kind of irrelevant since they aren't the same thing. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/149555/difference-between-immutable-and-const https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1495...