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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Side-Effects in Functions [Rosen Trick]
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Nick Roberts <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk> wrote:
 
: On whether it is good practice to program functions with side-effects,

Well, that's it, then?


If your opinion is that strong, maybe you should really give
Haskell a chance. Also, I've found Paulson's remarks on the
issue (in an early chapter of his ML book) instructive.
(But then I am not someone with an abundance of languages and their
compilation techniques in his head, like others here, but I seem
to recall that this subject has been debated for decades?)

Georg