Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Haskell also provides another kind of array which can be modified 
> in-place in the same sense that files can be written to - i.e., your 
> program returns a set of instructions to the runtime that says "hey, 
> create this array and modify its contents like this". Which makes sense 
> really. After all, what is a "file"? It's a named array of bytes that 
> can be modified [and reised] in-place! :-D

  Somehow I get the feeling that means:

  1) If you want to make a program which does some efficient calculations
using arrays, you have to jump through many useless hoops.

  2) Haskell is not pure regardless.

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