Magnus Therning
Sequential thinking would be related to procedural programming, that is ordering of statements are important but there's no state. Functional programming is declarative, no order and no state. So, to be strict I'd say that sequential form _is_ non-functional. At least if FOLDOC is correct and I read and understood things properly. (snip)
You've completely lost me here. Order is /very/ important in functional programming. Consider function composition: Prelude> ((+1) . (*2)) 5 11 Prelude> ((*2) . (+1)) 5 12 There we have sequencing, and the computation has intermediate state. There's nothing non-functional about the above. (snip)
The world has state! Just see what a "stink" that has created in the pure functional language camp! (snip)
Mmmm. Monads deal with that very nicely, I think, but there's a way to go yet. -- Mark