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John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> writes:

> On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 02:45:24 -0000 (UTC), Scott Sauyet
> <scott@sauyet.com> wrote:
>
>   <snip>
>>You see, I find you all wrong, also from a CS perspective.  Do you happen
>>to work mostly in languages like Java or C#, by any chance?  Perhaps
>>you've simply not had a chance to work in an environment/language that
>>affords you the opportunity to write really nice code without reams of
>>boilerplate error-checking.
>   <snip>
>
> One problem with this conversation is that one side is talking about
> ordinary languages such as Algol and C++ whereas the other side is
> talking about Functional Programming languages/implementations.

People have been drawing on varied backgrounds, but the focus has been
on ECMAScript's variadic Math.max function.  Ultimately, all the points
have to be relevant to that and I think that has been the case in the
vast majority of the posts.  In that since it's been a very good
discussion.

> The former must cope with partial functions. Many commercial
> applications need this. Division is a common example. Customer's
> telephone numbers are another example.
>
> The latter can't. A partial function is forbidden as it wrecks the
> algebra of operations.

I don't get your point at all.  I suspect some miss-communication
because functional languages often have partial functions at their core.

-- 
Ben.