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vemv on Jan 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bringing functional to the frontend – Clojure and ...

Characterizing side-effects as a series of supposedly functional transformations doesn't sound quite alright to me.

That said I'm curious about such an approach.

dustingetz on Jan 24, 2013 [–]

Modeling side effects as transformations on data is what functional programmers do all day. I'm not talking about monads - simple things like inserting keys into a map and manipulating collections does not rely on side effects in functional languages.

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