Re: [xsl] Functional Programming, "no side effects" and so on...

[Nic James Ferrier <nferrier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"John Horner" <Horner.John@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Has anyone got a link to an explanation of the philosophy of functional
> programming in general/XSLT specifically -- the "no side effects" idea
> and so on?
>
> I think I've got over the initial frustrations of XSLT not being like
> other languages in that you can't increment a variable and so on, but
> I'd like to understand why that's considered a good thing in terms of a
> bigger picture, what benefits it provides, etc.

functional programming is a big subject.

I'd start with wikipedia. It has quite good coverage of functional
programming.


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