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"John Horner" <Horner.John@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Has anyone got a link to an explanation of the philosophy of functional > programming in general/XSLT specifically -- the "no side effects" idea > and so on? > > I think I've got over the initial frustrations of XSLT not being like > other languages in that you can't increment a variable and so on, but > I'd like to understand why that's considered a good thing in terms of a > bigger picture, what benefits it provides, etc. functional programming is a big subject. I'd start with wikipedia. It has quite good coverage of functional programming. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs
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