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by safek 3307 days ago
On the other hand, how many languages do you know where arrays are passed by value?
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macintux 3307 days ago
My primary language (Erlang) does. I assume all functional programming languages do.
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safek 3307 days ago
That's true. I suppose my next argument is that seeing matrix.append(row) on its own line signals strongly that this is not a functional language.
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thedufer 3306 days ago
Is that true? I thought most functional programming languages did call-by-reference. I mean, if you have immutable data you can't tell the difference (outside of performance).
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macintux 3306 days ago
Under the hood it's probably by reference, but the semantics are by value. By reference indicates that the original value can be changed in the called function.

I think. Not a language lawyer.

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