Bob La Quey wrote:
On 10/26/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Personally, I *like* the idea of passing around the state; it's just
that when you also throw in a desire to avoid side-effects that I get
uncomfortable with the tradeoff.
Uh duh. You and I are not communicating. I really do not
see the need for side effects. I understand that they are used
a lot in conventional programming. I just do not see why they
_must_ be used nor what efficiencies they imply.
For most things I am not so concerned about the performance of my apps.
Just about everything I use is fast enough. But not everything is
bug-free enough. These days I am much more concerned with correct than
fast (top currently showing 98.6% idle cpu). I wouldn't mind trading
some of my computing power for correctness (which I believe implies more
security as well).
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