Functional - Re: FP tutorial for OO programmers? [LONG]

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Re: FP tutorial for OO programmers? [LONG]

Joachim Durchholz

2004-07-08, 4:02 pm

Andreas Rossberg wrote:

> Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>
>
> Any process can spawn other auxiliary processes, and this is
> sufficient to simulate state (a mutable cell is just a process that
> you can send set and get messages). So you don't have that property
> anyway. Erlang just discourages local state, it does not make it
> impossible.

Of course. Though that would be a lot of work for the programmer, so I'm
reasonably safe that this isn't the cause for a problem when debugging
an Erlang process.

Regards,
Jo

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