1 Mar
2007
1 Mar
'07
6:51 p.m.
Hi
forgive my ignorance but I thought functional programming was a mathematically sound framework unlike Object Oriented programming.
Referentially transparent is a better term than mathematically sound here. This is the property that x = y means that instances of x can be replaced with y.
Isn't using Haskell for OOP kind of defeating the whole object?
It is defeating the point of expressing programs in a beautiful way, but if you are building it on top of Haskell, without going to things like unsafePerformIO, then you still end up with a referentially transparent framework. Thanks Neil