top | item 14403102 (no title) safek | 8 years ago On the other hand, how many languages do you know where arrays are passed by value? discuss order hn newest macintux|8 years ago My primary language (Erlang) does. I assume all functional programming languages do. safek|8 years ago That's true. I suppose my next argument is that seeing matrix.append(row) on its own line signals strongly that this is not a functional language. thedufer|8 years ago Is that true? I thought most functional programming languages did call-by-reference. I mean, if you have immutable data you can't tell the difference (outside of performance). load replies (1)
macintux|8 years ago My primary language (Erlang) does. I assume all functional programming languages do. safek|8 years ago That's true. I suppose my next argument is that seeing matrix.append(row) on its own line signals strongly that this is not a functional language. thedufer|8 years ago Is that true? I thought most functional programming languages did call-by-reference. I mean, if you have immutable data you can't tell the difference (outside of performance). load replies (1)
safek|8 years ago That's true. I suppose my next argument is that seeing matrix.append(row) on its own line signals strongly that this is not a functional language.
thedufer|8 years ago Is that true? I thought most functional programming languages did call-by-reference. I mean, if you have immutable data you can't tell the difference (outside of performance). load replies (1)
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