Functional Programming Doesn’t Work (and what to do about it)

Re:Functional Programming Doesn’t Work (and what to do about... by cousin_it on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @08:45AM (#1020443)

Almost all code is initially written with the wrong assumptions.

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Re:Functional Programming Doesn’t Work (and what to do about... by Deestan on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @09:22AM (#1020496)

And it should(+) always be refactored to match the new assumptions in a meaningful way.

I get your point, I just meant that "doesn't work" is quite a stretch from "doesn't allow ugly global variable hacks".

(+) http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/html/rfc2119.html#anchor3

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Re:Functional Programming Doesn’t Work (and what to do about... by foldr on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @05:33AM (#1022255)

If there is information that needs to be accessible across several not-otherwise-very-interdependent modules of a program, then you need to have something with essentially all the properties of a global variable. That doesn't' necessarily mean that you need a single identifier with global scope, but it does mean that you need something with essentially the same properties.

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Re:Functional Programming Doesn’t Work (and what to do about... by bad_user on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @11:45AM (#1020713)

Since when are global variables ugly hacks?

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