Why functional code is shorter http://pchiusano.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/why-functional-code-is-shorter.html … great post by Paul Chuisano on the advantages of writing and using FP
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@liammclennan@jedws No, you need effects, not side-effects c.f. Haskell.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Replying to @liammclennan
@liammclennan@dibblego If I return an effect – such as an IO – nothing happens until that effect is interpreted, eg http://chris-taylor.github.com/blog/2013/02/09/io-is-not-a-side-effect/ …2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@jedws@liammclennan@dibblego that's really cool, I had no idea fx's which do IO could be pure.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@dschobel @jedws @liammclennan Your own effects language + interpreter with the free monad. e.g. (pure) RNG in Scala https://github.com/tonymorris/epistest/blob/master/src/main/scala/org/epistest/Rng.scala …
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