Rich Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > [snip] > > By definition any function in a functional language will > > always produce the same result if given the same arguments, so you can > > memoize any function. > > > > Ah, so that's why time.time() seems to be stuck... ;)
;-) As Bruno noted I should have said "pure functional language" above. As for how you deal with IO in a pure functional language, well, either you make it impure (eg Erlang or Lisp) - functions can have side effects, or you do other complicated things like monads in Haskell! -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
