Changes between Version 15 and Version 16 of Language/Overview
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v15 v16 9 9 10 10 11 Disciple uses region, effect and closure typing, and this information is used during compiler optimisations. Most of it can be inferred, but you do need to know about it when importing functions via the FFI. Th eextended type information is also used to check that the meaning of programs that mix laziness and destructive update does not depend on order of evaluation for the lazy parts, which is one of the criteria for being a purely functional language.11 Disciple uses region, effect and closure typing, and this information is used during compiler optimisations. Most of it can be inferred, but you do need to know about it when importing functions via the FFI. This extended type information is also used to check that the meaning of programs that mix laziness and destructive update does not depend on order of evaluation for the lazy parts, which is one of the criteria for being a purely functional language. 12 12 13 13 * The [wiki:Language/Overview/EffectSystem EffectSystem] tracks what computational effects are being used in a program, without the need for state monads.
