Re: Structured programs (long)

From: H. S. Lahman (h.lahman_at_verizon.net)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:11:36 GMT

Responding to Hey...

> Your arguments (and hence the questions above) are based on the premise
> that in order to meet new program requirements functional programmers dive
> in at any point they care in the dependency graph and start modifying the
> behaviour of functions (changing their specifications in effect), This is
> not so, so your questions above are un-answerable, except to say as a
> general rule FPers do "none of the above" in the course of maintaining
> their programs. In my facile example I was quite careful to preserve
> wobbler, precisely *because* of the allegedly non-existant hierarchical
> dependency of implementations (not specifications BTW, as you stated in an
> earlier post).

As I expected, you don't have an alternative construction technique to
that of my example that will avoid the hierarchical dependence of wobble
on boggle during maintenance.

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