On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Marius Gundersen <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Andreas Rossberg <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Second, due to the extremely impure nature of JavaScript, there aren't
>> many useful pure functions you could even write. For example, your
>> 'sum' function is not pure, because the implicit conversions required
>> by + can cause arbitrary side effects.
>>
>
> Functions passed to the array methods map, reduce, filter, etc would be
> good candidates for pure/side-effect-free functions. These functions
> shouldn't alter any state; they should only return a new value based on the
> parameter they were sent.
>
You haven't addressed Andreas's point: Almost any function you write is
nonpure, including your sum example. As a fun exercise, go ahead and write
a pure version of your sum example.
Waldemar
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