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Subject: Re: why access parameter in stream attributes to begin with, instead
 of in or in/out ?
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Oh... Understood. In the first draft/drafts, functions were in/out, that wa=
s forsaken for the sake of purity from side-effects, then for the sake of t=
he said side-effects access parameters are added (don't know if dispatching=
 on access parameters/results were added at the same moment), yet they wait=
ed one more version to put back in-out function parameters... Surely there =
are many reasons (probably) but it still seems funny.