8 Nov
2004
8 Nov
'04
2:47 p.m.
On Monday 08 Nov 2004 12:14 pm, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
Adrian Hey wrote:
Why are top level IORefs any worse than other IORefs (for example)?
Because global variables are just BAD.
Who said anything about global?
If you really grok the functional way of doing things there should be *very*, *very* few times you need a global variable.
"*very*, *very* few times" is not the same as never. Regards -- Adrian Hey