Re: [Haskell-cafe] meaning of "referential transparency"

* Henning Thielemann [2013-04-06 19:43:45+0200]

Can someone enlighten me about the origin of the term "referential transparency"? I can lookup the definition of "referential transparency" in the functional programming sense in the Haskell Wiki and I can lookup the meaning of "reference" and "transparency" in a dictionary, but I don't know why these words were chosen as name for this defined property.

There has been a long discussion of RT a couple of years ago (?), which originated at StackOverflow and moved to cafe. I'd enjoy re-reading it if someone digs it up... Roman