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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by fiddlerwoaroof on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:28AM (#28521025)
This is only true if your stages don't have arguments: with a | b(something) | c | d, `something` is now evaluated before b(something)
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Re:Functional programming is not popular because it is weird... by grapist420 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:31AM (#28521052)
true, although argument evaluation order in a(x,b(y,c(d),z),w) is already somewhat hard to rely on
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