Porting some code from OCaml to Scheme, the amount of boilerplate that goes away is staggering. Of course, I am also losing a whole lot of safety and refactoring help. But this sure makes the cost visible.
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6. No more packing and unpacking state in reader monads. Parameters provide a MODULAR way to handle dynamic scoping. 7. STATE IS MODULARITY. TO HELL WITH CONTAGIOUS NON-MODULAR EXPLICIT STATE-PASSING IN A MORONIC PRETENSE OF PURITY.
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8. No more bullshit with 10000 kinds of integer and other numeric types that you constantly convert between. Just use numbers with the operations you need.
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