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0xdeadbeefbabe on May 29, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Elm at Prezi

bah side effects what useful thing can you do without side effects? The only way to have no side effects is to frame the problem in a certain way.

alipang on May 29, 2013 [–]

Haskell has support for side-effects. It's just able to state the property that something is a 100% pure function, and also makes it very easy to write such code a lot of the time.

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