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Re: Several beginner-questions
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Lowell Gilbert |
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Re: Several beginner-questions |
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Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:20:19 -0000 |
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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.