On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Kent Tenney <[email protected]> wrote:

> So, I did a bit of cleanup on a collection of Leo-related
> code and pushed it to github.
> https://github.com/ktenney/leolib
>

​From leolib.leo:

> The cool kids love functional

Guido discusses functional programming at the 44 minute mark of his 2013
keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBRMq2Ioxsc
I agree completely with them.​​​

This talk was (afaik) his latest comprehensive summary of his present
thinking.  It was what got me interested in static type checking.

> and it certainly is easier to write tests for [functional programs]

It's easy to write a "functional" unit test for any class and method: each
unit test just creates a new instance of the class.  This guarantees that
state issues are manageable.

Having state in classes is a *good* thing: it's why classes are so useful.

Edward​

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