> Rich was promoting functional programming. I can see functional programming > has its benefits, but you will need mutable states eventually somewhere to do > useful things. Functional programming just tell you to constraint yourself > when using mutable states. It's not like mutable states are to be avoided by > all means. I mean, do you want to get a copy of Google's internal state so > you can send it back to Google next time along with your search string, and > hence make Google search functional? That is neither practical nor desirable.
It is practical, and desirable, to make a complete (albeit lazily realized) value of e.g. entire databases available to any process in a system. Stu -- 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
