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The state should be purely passed through function inputs and outputs (lemmy.world)

submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Nothing wrong with classes in functional programming though. Just return a new instance of the class from your method, rather than mutating an existing instance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Javascript:

I heard you like mutating class data so I'm mutating the data you can put in your class data, dawg.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

JavaScript: a language for mutants.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Classes are just another way to define an object. Heck even Lisp has objects!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Right, I think the two aren't as different as they appear. You can think of a closure as an object with just one method.

If OO programming is fundamentally about objects sending messages to each other, then there are many ways to approach that. Some of those ways are totally compatible with functional programming.

The legacy of C++ has dominated what OOP is "supposed" to be, but it doesn't have to work like that.