[plt-scheme] self-referential data structures

From: Marco Morazan (morazanm at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 5 15:10:15 EST 2009

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Thomas Chust <chust at web.de> wrote:
> Hello Aditya,
>
> self-referential data structures are not strongly tied to functional
> programming. In fact, creating them requires some form of mutation
> which is not exactly a functional concept.
>

Do you mean circular data structures? Even those, under some parameter
passing conventions, can be created without mutation/assignment.

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Cheers,

Marco


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