On Mon, 06 Oct 2003, Richard Jones wrote:
> Yikes. The good thing about the previous code was it _wasn't_ purely
> functional.
>
> I'll never understand this fear of mutability.
I have no fear of mutability. It's just that there was absolutely
no apparent advantage of having mutability in this datastructure,
neither performance- nor expressiveness-wise. A reference holding this
datastructure outside of the library would do as well. You are not afraid
of dereferencing values, are you? ;-)
Regards,
Markus
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