Go rant

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Hm, I guess I should have been more explicit. The problem isn't defining
>> a few more names, but that the explanation completely neglects any
>> control flow issues (e.g. conditionals and loops). You can't define a
>> new name for each instance of a loop, so everything is recursion etc. I
>> mean the consequences are earth-shattering.
> 
> The implications of single assignment on control structures seem both
> insignificant and obvious to me.  Much more troubling is that it doesn't
> work for fields and array elements at all.

Good point - among other things, it explains why FP by and large tries 
to convince all who want to listen that arrays are no good :o).

Andrei