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Quote: the assignment statement undoes referential transparency and identity; how much of mathematics can survive?

QuoteRef: straC8_1967 , p. 22



Group:
replacement or assignment
Topic:
entities
Topic:
referential transparency

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[With referential transparency, the variable x in an expression has the same value on each occasion it occurs.] The introduction of the assignment command alters … without [referential transparency] we have lost most of our …   Google-1   Google-2

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