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> Is immutability exclusive to functional programming? No, but immutable defaults are powerful. E.g. in JavaScript / Python, the built-in lists and dictionary
by greener_grass 2y ago
> Is immutability exclusive to functional programming?
No, but immutable defaults are powerful.
E.g. in JavaScript / Python, the built-in lists and dictionarys (which are blessed with special syntax) are mutable.
> Is the ability to use data/values exclusive to functional programming?
No, but expression-orientation makes this less painful
> Are monads exclusive to functional programming?
You can hack them in by abusing co-routines or perhaps async/await in various languages, but it will never be as good as something built for this purpose.
Type-inferences, type-classes and do-notation make monads workable in practice.
- yazzku 2y agoYou don't need coroutines or async or anything complicated to model monads, just functions and data structures. Search for "c++ monads" and you'll find a ton of examples.
- greener_grass 2y agoYou need the syntax if you want it to actually work well in practice.