| ▲ | voxl 9 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
A functional programmer who casts away proper sum types and pattern matching is no functional programmer at all | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | dgellow an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
You can do functional programming without strict typing. Not common, because strict types work just so well with the FP paradigm but definitely possible, it’s not in itself a contradiction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | rgoulter 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
I thought lisps were all functional programming, and lack sum types and pattern matching? In which case, what's the term for the "proper sum types and pattern matching" flavour of things? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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