On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Lennart Augustsson wrote: > > And yes, somewhere there's some global mutable state in the OS. > I've never claimed that it should be totally forbidden. Various > circumstances forces it upon us. What I've been claiming is that > it should be avoided where possible. Which is almost always.
The strict object-capability style of programming makes this a strict rule to prevent capabilities from leaking. http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/ Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ VIKING NORTH UTSIRE SOUTH UTSIRE: SOUTH 7 OR GALE 8, OCCASIONALLY SEVERE GALE 9 IN VIKING AND NORTH UTSIRE, DECREASING 5 OR 6, THEN VEERING SOUTHWEST 6 OR 7 IN VIKING. RAIN AT TIMES. MODERATE OR GOOD. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe