Café, For those who havent seen it Uday Reddy has a comprehensive answer to a request to explain referential transparency on Stack Overflow.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/210835/what-is-referential-transparency/9 859966#9859966 For good measure he finishes with a rather scathing assessment of functional programmers claim to ownership of RT: Functional programmers don't know much of this research. Their ideas on referential transparency are to be taken with a large grain of salt. Marvellous! 'Tis rare to find such a robust assessment combined with understanding (and it certainly makes me think a bit). Have we become a bit complacent about RT? Chris _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
