oops, my reply to this missed the point because i hadn't read the original 
message carefully enough

sorry

-----Original Message-----
From: "Raphael Collet" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:16am
To: [email protected], "Mozart users" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: newbie: differences between accumulators and implicit state

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http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-usersDear user,

Your guess is correct: an accumulator is an implicit state.  The current
value of the state is not stored in a cell or an object, but instead passed
as an argument to the recursive calls.

Cheers,
Raphael

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:32 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, i'm an italian user and this is my first post here...
>
> I have read the book "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer
> Programming" but i don't understand wich are the differences between
> accumulators and implicit state still. Or are they the same thing?
>
> I know that explicit state is a cell and we can find this also in the
> store and not only in the mind...i know that implicit state is an
> argument of a funcion and an accumulator is a state invariant, and so? I
> think that implicit state and accumulator are the same thing but i'm not
> sure about it, can you help me, please?
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