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Re: undefined compound chaining behavior
From: |
Mike Miller |
Subject: |
Re: undefined compound chaining behavior |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:52:21 -0400 |
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 16:42:25 +0330, Hossein Sajjadi wrote:
> By introduction of compound assignment in Octave it is intended to be
> an improvement regards to Matlab but this introduce other issuses such
> as violation of referential transparency.
Well, an assignment or any other expression that has side effects is
not referentially transparent, that's the way it is. Octave is not a
functional language.
> I think the rules, if there are any rules, should be updated.
There are rules, as I think it's been made clear here. It also seems
clear from the responses you have gotten that many others find the
current behavior more correct, so I think you are in the minority.
Thanks for the discussion,
--
mike
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, (continued)
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Hossein Sajjadi, 2014/06/09
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Hossein Sajjadi, 2014/06/09
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Mike Miller, 2014/06/09
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Hossein Sajjadi, 2014/06/09
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Mike Miller, 2014/06/09
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Hossein Sajjadi, 2014/06/10
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Ben Abbott, 2014/06/10
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Hossein Sajjadi, 2014/06/10
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Mike Miller, 2014/06/10
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Hossein Sajjadi, 2014/06/10
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior,
Mike Miller <=
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Hossein Sajjadi, 2014/06/10
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Michael Goffioul, 2014/06/10
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Hossein Sajjadi, 2014/06/10
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Mike Miller, 2014/06/10
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Hossein Sajjadi, 2014/06/10
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Michael D. Godfrey, 2014/06/10
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Hossein Sajjadi, 2014/06/10
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Mike Miller, 2014/06/10
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Hossein Sajjadi, 2014/06/10
- Re: undefined compound chaining behavior, Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso, 2014/06/10