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Why do you need to mutate things in order to write a program? Operational programming may have damaged your brain. (With regards to lenses, note that: This isn
by jbri 13y ago
Why do you need to mutate things in order to write a program? Operational programming may have damaged your brain.
(With regards to lenses, note that: This isn't mutating anything, and it's not a metaprogramming "hack" either. Functions as first-class entities instead of opaque blobs of code is one of the big wins of functional programming.)
- marshray 13y ago> Why do you need to mutate things in order to write a program? To change the state of the universe from one in which my program is not written to one where it is. Furthermore, if the program I write mutates nothing upon execution there is no point in running it.