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What Imperative Programming Feels Like (media.mas.to)
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[–] samc@feddit.uk 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Functional bros rise up!

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Rise up and copy!

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

We're not savages, we use structural sharing in our data structures. :)

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

yes();

[–] MyFeetOwnMySoul@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now, I don't functional (at all), but if you call a function with no parameters, doesn't it imply side effects?

[–] eluvatar@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean it could just always return the same thing...

[–] MyFeetOwnMySoul@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would think that role is filled by constants.

[–] akariii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

where we're going, constants are just functions

[–] MyFeetOwnMySoul@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Java 2: you can program anything you want but it has to be a function.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Classes are just functions!