On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Stuart Halloway
<stuart.hallo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OK, good, thanks for the explanation.
>>
>> Is it desirable behavior? Is there some case where a programmer wants
>> this behavior?
>>
>> It's pretty scary to have to consider these hidden effects. Sort of
>> the opposite of FP.
>
> If you write functions that work differently depending on a binding,
> then you are outside FP anyway.

It only works differently depending on a binding under lazy evaluation.

Inside FP, outside FP, all I want is no surprises.

Hugh

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