On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Steve Jenson <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I started programming in Scala, if() {} being typed as Unit threw
> me for a loop even though I had a lot of exposure to expression
> oriented languages. It really encouraged me to start writing things as
> combinators.

For functional-style code, that seems like a perfectly fine approach.
But BitC intentionally straddles the boundary between functional and
imperative languages, and the combinator idiom, in practice,
frequently relies on dynamic allocation.


shap
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