{"id":243,"date":"2008-10-21T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=243"},"modified":"2008-10-21T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T14:54:00","slug":"243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting. Reia&#8217;s Tony Arcieri <a href=\"http:\/\/tonyarcieri.org\/articles\/2008\/09\/30\/single-assignment-myths\">debunks<\/a> Erlang&#8217;s &#8220;single assignment&#8221; propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>I guess someone could argue that once you have multiple assignment you&#8217;re going to be more tempted to write a longer chain of actions as a sequence of statements rather than composing it out of multiple functions &#8230; and this may be a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve ranted often enough against languages which think its their job to constrain programmers that it better not be <em>me<\/em> who makes that argument.<\/p>\n<p>Update : I&#8217;d like to see Frederik&#8217;s question about closures (in the comments of that blog-post) answered though.<\/p>\n<p>Update 2: Ulf Wiger points out that it got answered by Robert Virding later in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting. Reia&#8217;s Tony Arcieri debunks Erlang&#8217;s &#8220;single assignment&#8221; propaganda. I guess someone could argue that once you have multiple assignment you&#8217;re going to be more tempted to write a longer chain of actions as a sequence of statements rather than composing it out of multiple functions &#8230; and this may be a bad thing. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,385],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-erlang","tag-reia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}