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Re:About V, the language Volt is written in by rurban on Thursday February 07, 2019 @12:45AM (#19103299)
pass by copy is a traditional safe mechanism in functional languages, esp. for multithreading. It can also be made fast enough.
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Re:About V, the language Volt is written in by dnautics on Thursday February 07, 2019 @01:22AM (#19103423)
Keep in mind that many of these functional PLs encourage datatypes like first class linked lists that make this copy semantic very fast.
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