Computing is not mathematical proof. It has to have side effect(s), else there will be no need to compute anything, if result is known beforehand.
And who said that smalltalk is all about state? It is not. It is all about objects. " 90% of my life as a Smalltalker is state wrangling. I am a state herder. The debugger is my staff I use to whack the state. " it is fallacy.. you see only what object(s) wanna show you. if they would want to hide certain things (state) from your eyes, you won't even notice, nor will be able to retrieve it. Because you interacting with live objects, not with a dead state. -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
