Uday Reddy has followed up with another substantial and interesting post on
referential transparency here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/210835/what-is-referential-transparency/11740176#11740176
The thrust of his argument appears to be that functional programmers have
created a lot of confusion around the ideas of referential transparency. I
sympathize but I think he is going too far.
As I see it, while the very close association of functional programming and
related concepts with referential transparency may have led to some confusion
around the concept that doesn't mean that the specific means that functional
programmers have been using to increase (classically understood) RT in
functional programs is somehow invalid.
Reddy has responded to my comment here
http://stackoverflow.com/a/11680011/306550
and I have followed up in turn.
Chris
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