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Re:Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the ca... by alanbernstein on Friday May 10, 2019 @11:45PM (#19884416)
It's more like code than state, isn't it? The thing that changed is the implementation of a circuit for computing the result of some calculation, i.e. a function.
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Re:Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the ca... by sgillen on Saturday May 11, 2019 @05:59AM (#19885440)
I very often think of the current definitions of functions as part of the program state.
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