Re: Mutation - do you understand it really?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> Symbols can have values, that value can change so it's
> mutable, but the symbol can be assigned something else (or
> nothing), so that's mutable as well. It's all mutable, that's
> what you mean?
>
> So when you compile you don't do that, instead generate a new
> one for each time the binding is reassociated?

In Haskell you can't change variable bindings like in Lisp.  You
program in a completely different style.  Read an introduction into
Haskell if you are interested, then you'll understand the reaction.

Michael.