[Haskell-cafe] Reddy on Referential Transparency

Café, For those who haven’t seen it Uday Reddy has a comprehensive answer to a request to explain referential transparency on Stack Overflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/210835/what-is-referential-transparency/9 859966#9859966 For good measure he finishes with a rather scathing assessment of functional programmers’ claim to ownership of RT: Functional programmers don't know much of this research. Their ideas on referential transparency are to be taken with a large grain of salt. Marvellous! 'Tis rare to find such a robust assessment combined with understanding (and it certainly makes me think a bit). Have we become a bit complacent about RT? Chris