On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 11:52 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> "the implementation is free to use in-place mutations of the state object >> – ... without letting anyone know that the implementation has given up >> any functional purity." > > If it's impossible to tell that functional purity has > been given up, then in what sense has it been given up > at all?
Did I say it was impossible to tell? Just because Donald Trump doesn't admit to wearing a hairpiece doesn't mean that nobody can tell that he does. *wink* The way you can usually tell your functional language has given up purity in favour of mutating implementations is that your code actually runs with non-toy amounts of data :-) -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
