In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Donn Cave wrote: > > Someday we will look at "variables" like we look at goto. > > > How very functional. I believe some people naturally think in terms of > state transformations and some in terms of functional evaluation. I am > pretty firmly in the former camp myself, so variables are a natural > repository for state to me.
Don't worry - there will be a state transformation monad for you! Nature or nurture? it would be interesting to see some identical twin studies on novice programmers. Since few of us were exposed first to strictly functional programming, though, you have to wonder. In its day, goto was of course very well loved. Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
