Re: [tlug] STM, the Silver Bullet, and the Foot

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2008-11-26 13:34 +0900 (Wed), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> [1]  I don't think there are any dialects of Lisp where variable
> access has side-effects....

Well, there you go! More inconsistencies! :-)

(Haskell doesn't really distinguish between variables and functions;
because it uses single-assignment, "let x = 3" could just as easily be
considered to be defining a function that takes no arguments and returns
3 as defining a "variable.")

cjs
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