[From nobody Mon Mar 25 16:13:59 2013 Subject: Re: Impressions of Mozart-Oz From: martin j logan <martin@vailsys.com> To: Roger Price <rprice@cs.uml.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0212142322430.2497-100000@olive.home.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0212142322430.2497-100000@olive.home.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 16 Dec 2002 11:53:42 -0600 Message-Id: <1040061223.5644.339.camel@berimbau> Mime-Version: 1.0 On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 15:07, Roger Price wrote: > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Vance Shipley wrote: > > > Q: Where are the global variables? > > A: There are none.... Don't use the process dictionary. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > What's wrong with the process dictionary? Is it a matter of performance, > or programming style, or something else? > > Best Regards, > Roger > Roger, The following link has a nice explanation of referential transparency. http://ist.unibw-muenchen.de/kahl/reftrans.html Cheers, Martin > ]