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Re: Several beginner-questions


From: Lowell Gilbert
Subject: Re: Several beginner-questions
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:20:19 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (berkeley-unix)

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> writes:
>> It's certainly possible to write functional programs in Emacs Lisp, just
>> as in any other Lisp.  But any program that uses side effects (changing
>> a buffer being one obvious example) is not a functional program.
>
> And what do you do of the buffer monad?

I don't understand the question.  
I haven't run into a "buffer monad" object in Emacs, 
so I can't guess what its semantics are supposed to be.


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