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		charcircuit 54 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Carmack on mutable variables Const by default is not functional programming.

umanwizard 54 days ago [–]

Indeed, but it's one of the (many) good ideas from functional programming that have filtered into more mainstream languages.

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