@djspiewak @darinmorrison I have told you there is no definition where it makes sense. Are you going to own the goal posts and hide them?
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@dibblego@darinmorrison This whole discussion was about a *quote* I made in a talk yesterday that had NOTHING to do with IO.
@djspiewak @darinmorrison if not then what on earth leads you to believe that programming exclusively with pure functions is not possible?
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@dibblego@darinmorrison Because such functions do not interact with the outside world.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@dibblego@darinmorrison You can WRITE exclusively pure functions, and so you do in Haskell. -
@djspiewak@darinmorrison you can in Scala too. Pure functions always.
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@dibblego@darinmorrison The reason that works is because the runtime (which is part of the program!) is doing the interaction for you. -
@djspiewak@darinmorrison this new definition "prt of the runtime", can also be reduced to absurdity. - Show replies
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