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Which functional language prevents you from passing buffers by reference? Edit: I see there are quite a few. Please tell me about one :)

• kristopolous 12y ago
  Alright ... I didn't mean this to be confusing ... here I'll remove that --- I was referring the whole class of languages which are more driven by purist theory than by practical need. There's quite a few that only support pass-by-value intentionally
  • Jweb_Guru 12y ago
    C only supports pass-by-value (unless I missed something recent) and it's generally not considered a pure functional language.
    • anonymoushn 12y ago
      C lets you make pointers to arbitrary things, so even if you somehow had a value containing your 1GB buffer, you could pass a pointer to it instead of copying it around.
    • kristopolous 12y ago
      sorry ... it's 340 am ... i'm screwing up my english. alright ... i'm going to stop replying.
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