In video gaming, the point is to modify the state, not return a value. How can we possibly maintain purity with gamers in?

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musou wrote on August 9, 2018 at 8:31 PM

modify the state

we must radicalize the gamers

no_defun_allowed wrote on August 10, 2018 at 1:32 AM

well what if you take a copy every frame and pass it through calls to a tail recursive frame function?

then again screens and keyboards are literally side effects unless you write a program which outputs the outputs at the right time

Moonside OP wrote on August 10, 2018 at 2:28 AM

then again screens and keyboards

Impure! Banish them!

no_defun_allowed wrote on August 10, 2018 at 6:15 AM

in that case, write a program which inputs the right keystrokes to the main tail calling loop

but with what if not keyboards?

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