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From: Warp
Date: 13 Feb 2008 09:24:06
Message: <47b2fd86@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > If I'm not mistaken, for example assignment produces a side-effect.
> > Even I/O causes side-effects.

> Assignment and I/O are both side-effects. Accessing an indexed array 
> does not. There is absolutely no reason why a pure functional language 
> cannot have arrays.

  Are you telling me in Haskell you can't modify the contents of an array
in-place? (By "indexable array" I implied that it can be assigned to,
although I should have perhaps stated it more explicitly.)

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                                                          - Warp


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