One of the benefits of immutable data structures is the ability to do speculative execution. You can compute an answer and if you don't like it you can just abandon it.
This is useful for techniques like backtracking. I don't see this idea mentioned anywhere in Clojure but I think it would make an interesting bullet point. Tim Daly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
