in reply to Re^2: Structural Elegance
in thread Structural Elegance

But if you give it a fancy name, "Singleton", then the global is acceptable...to some.


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Re^4: Structural Elegance
by TimToady (Parson) on Apr 20, 2005 at 22:18 UTC
    And if you call it a "monad", a different group of people gets excited. But wait, monads are threaded through, which makes them tramp data instead, I guess... :-)

      :)

      Maybe you could re-term "side-effects" as "concurrent behaviours" and start a whole new fad for another old idea? If you do it, it just might work!


      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco.
      Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal?

        This is beautiful. Too bad so few of my friends would understand why it's funny.

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