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Re:Elm at Prezi by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @04:57PM (#5789032)
bah side effects what useful thing can you do without side effects? The only way to have no side effects is to frame the problem in a certain way.
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Re:Elm at Prezi by alipang on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @05:19PM (#5789174)
Haskell has support for side-effects. It's just able to state the property that something is a 100% pure function, and also makes it very easy to write such code a lot of the time.
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