On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > A truly functional programming language wouldn't have side effects (in > this case, it wouldn't sleep).
That makes sense. When people are sleeping, they're non-functional, ergo a programming language that can sleep is non-functional :) Seriously though... this ties in with the other issues about *purely* functional languages being rather impractical, and the purity generally being sullied some by things like monads (which I still don't understand, despite the explanations in another thread). So what happens if you have a monad "print to the console" in place of Steve's time.sleep example? Will you get one execution of it or two? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
