I've now learned that functional programming languages don't have assignment. And there I was thinking it was _reassignment_ they avoided…
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@dibblego@viktorklang@runarorama I don't speak Scala, but in Haskell ST and IO are definitely destructive and not purely-functional
@acfoltzer @viktorklang @runarorama Can you show me what distinguishes IO/ST and say [] in that only the former is destructive?
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@dibblego@viktorklang@runarorama maybe you have ST/IO refs confused with State monad? surely mutable heap cells are obviously destructive -
@acfoltzer@dibblego@viktorklang not observably so.
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