Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> As posted elsewhere, what Warp *really* means is "arrays with in-place 
> update". Which *is* strictly speaking against functional style. (But 
> that doesn't stop you using it even in a pure functional language such 
> as Haskell...)

  Well, modifying an array in-place means it's a side-effect, which
means Haskell is not pure.

  OTOH, why would that be a bad thing? Just being "pure functional" for
the sake of being pure is counter-productive. There are many situations
where being able to handle arrays in-place is more or less mandatory
for efficiency. Trying to avoid it would sometimes be more awkward than
would be worth.

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                                                          - Warp

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