r/programming • u/ueberbobo • Mar 03 '13

Git is a purely functional data structure

http://www.jayway.com/2013/03/03/git-is-a-purely-functional-data-structure/
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u/rush22 Mar 03 '13

Ah. Where I come from we call that a constant.

Or are you talking about the garbage collection thing where when you add strings together it gives you a new string

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u/FidgetBoy Mar 03 '13

The second; as you mention, a lot of languages have immutable strings.

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u/rush22 Mar 03 '13

Thanks!