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		chas on April 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Explicit vs. Clever I think a lot of people would argue that composability is what "functional" code is really interested and many of the other things that are normally associated with it are actually side-effects of the emphasis on composition.

tome on April 3, 2013 [–]

Exactly. There's no point being "functional" for the sake of functions. It's for the benefits this style brings, an important one being composability.

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