You're right, I was wrong :) John
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 3:07 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 09 Oct 2018 19:31 +0200, Alexander Burger wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 01:21:07PM -0400, John Duncan wrote: > > > Yes, you couldn't reuse the same initial value for a data structure > like > > > you would in scheme > > > > How do you mean that? As I said, this code is completely free of > destructive > > side effects. You can use and reuse any initial value. > > Indeed. > > $ pil > (de foldl (F I . @) > (pass > mapc > '(@ > (setq I (apply F (conc (rest) (cons I)))) ) ) ) > -> foldl > : (setq I 0) > -> 0 > : (foldl '+ 0 (1 2 3 4)) > -> 10 > : I > -> 0 > > "Inside" `foldl` there is some "Hulk smash!"ing going on, but not > outside. `foldl` owns `I` and smashes on it with impunity; that's not a > problem. > > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe > -- John Duncan
