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Re:Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (2007) by lacker on Saturday October 24, 2020 @12:56PM (#24880393)
The only thing worse than global mutable state is a complicated and buggy structure that does the exact same thing that global mutable state does
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Re:Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (2007) by kazagistar on Saturday October 24, 2020 @02:19PM (#24880946)
It makes the most sense to me to default to immutable, but swap to mutable when appropriate.
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