The technical terms are 'variable assignment' and 'single assignment'. 'Assigment' is generally considered to mean the former unless it's qualified.
From a pedantic perspective, you can't really disagree with the statement 'haskell supports single assignment.' But equally as pedantic, most actual text reads 'FP doesn't support variable assignment', including the original article above.
I don't have a copy of the Ravi Sethi book to see what the exact text of his exact statement was.
From a pedantic perspective, you can't really disagree with the statement 'haskell supports single assignment.' But equally as pedantic, most actual text reads 'FP doesn't support variable assignment', including the original article above.
I don't have a copy of the Ravi Sethi book to see what the exact text of his exact statement was.
Now that I've seen this image on wikipedia:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Fp_no_de...
I'm really tempted to waste some more money at Cafe Press.