Re: Commensurability as Key

2013-08-20 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hello, some clarifications below On 08/21/2013 05:19 AM, Doug McNutt wrote: >> * a "function" is a subroutine returning a scalar ( see below) fwiw we don't make that distinction in the specification; we just talk about subroutines. We can return nothing, a scalar or a non-scalar. >>, a "pr

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Re: Commensurability as Key

2013-08-20 Thread Doug McNutt
At 11:41 -0400 8/20/13, yary wrote: >I'll bite... this concept of "commensurablity" is not one I grasp from >your email. > >"functions are (sugarably) degenerate (many to 1) relations and >procedures are (sugarably) degenerate (state-transition) functions." >Perl & many other languages don't have a

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Re: Commensurability as Key

2013-08-20 Thread yary
I'll bite... this concept of "commensurablity" is not one I grasp from your email. "functions are (sugarably) degenerate (many to 1) relations and procedures are (sugarably) degenerate (state-transition) functions." Perl & many other languages don't have a strong distinction between functions & pr