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Re: performance

Jost Boekemeier writes:
 > Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe@linux.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> writes:
 > 
 > > > layers of module hierarchies and similar cool and nifty things.
 > 
 > > necessary for a module to have more than one environment?  A module
 >                                                ^- top-level environment of course

A purely functional style could probably not profit from it at all, just
some hybridic style, as it allows modules to refer to variables in e.g.
some let- or lambda block, in which the module is loaded, as free variables,
and to modify them (which is of course non-functional).
--
Klaus Schilling