Re:N-queen puzzle in 4 lines of Scala
by rwjwjuwjudf on Sunday April 10, 2016 @05:57PM
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Output is a side effect.
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Not in Haskell and other pure languages. Pure functional programming is used to construct larger programs from smaller ones, which only when finally executed by the runtime produce output.
Re:N-queen puzzle in 4 lines of Scala
by rwjwjuwjudf on Sunday April 10, 2016 @06:16PM
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Are there any programs that produce output before they are executed?
It is not easy describing pure functional programming in two sentences. I encourage you to read up on it yourself. Again, IO is not a side-effect in pure languages such as Haskell. And again, the absence of side-effects best defines functional programming, not any particular feature, which imperative languages can and do steal.