Subj : Re: OO compilers and efficiency
To   : comp.programming
From : Jon Harrop
Date : Wed Jul 27 2005 11:03 am

Chris Dollin wrote:
> Chris Dollin wrote:
>> Functional programs have if-then-else. What they don't have is
>> updatable locations.
> 
> Probably I should say that *pure* functional *languages* don't have
> update. Impure FLs - eg ML, Scheme - have limited update and lots
> of idioms that don't use it.

Why do you say "limited" update?

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