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Comment by dmead

8 hours ago

Is this what the fp community calls referential transparency?

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Jtsummers  8 hours ago

Very similar, referential transparency is the ability to replace a function call (or expression, generally) with its result (or value). So using an array (or other tabling mechanism) you can take advantage of this to trade off space for time.

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