Re:Not Lisp again (2009)
by kazinator on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:40PM
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You're right; encapsulation doesn't mean mutable state; it means combining code and data (making a capsule).
Lisp list aren't ... whatever you call those stateful collection things that you can mutate with a list.add(42) type code that people are used to in a lot of scripting languages nowadays. That will trip up people who are used to that sort of thing.
Lisp list aren't ... whatever you call those stateful collection things that you can mutate with a list.add(42) type code that people are used to in a lot of scripting languages nowadays. That will trip up people who are used to that sort of thing.