Re:How Lisp is Going to Save the World
by jeffdavis on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @05:41PM
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"lisp it is up to the developer whether or not a function will be referentially transparent"
Although that may compromise the ability of the compiler to detect mistakes even when the developer writes all referentially-transparent functions. Not sure about that, but I suspect that it does in practice (currently) even if not theoretically inherent.
Although that may compromise the ability of the compiler to detect mistakes even when the developer writes all referentially-transparent functions. Not sure about that, but I suspect that it does in practice (currently) even if not theoretically inherent.