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Questions - purity

How would a functional language actually define/translate primitives to hardware?

Let's say I have a few primitives defined, here using javascript: const TRUE = x => y => x; const FALSE = x => y => y; const ZERO = f => a => a; const ONE = f => a => f(a); con...
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David542

javascript

functional-programming

side-effects

io-monad

purity

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A function is pure if its result (the return value) only depends on the inputs you give to it. A language is purely functional if all its functions are pure¹. Therefore it's clear that "utilities...
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Enlico

Can one store a value indexed by a string in the IO monad?

I want to use custom ManagerSettings to build a custom Network.Wreq.Session. I modify from the defaultManagerSettings both managerRawConnection and managerModifyRequest. I want managerModifyRequest to...
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fyusuf-a

haskell

io

purity

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I am not familiar with the library, but I guess you need to write something like this: -- pseudocode foo = do -- create the IORef here r <- newIORef "hello" let settings = defaul...
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