Comment by CyberDildonics
6 hours ago
No, the best thing you can do for simplicity is to not conflate concepts. The perpetual idea of mixing data and execution is a misguided search for a silver bullet and it never makes things better in the long term.
This is cleverness over craftsmanship. Keeping data and execution as separate as possible is what leads to simplicity and modularity.
The exception is data structures which need the data and the functions that deal with it to expose that data conveniently to be closely tied to each other.
Everything else is an unnecessary dependency that obscures what is actually happening and makes two things that could be separated depend on each other.
> No, the best thing you can do for simplicity is to not conflate concepts.
This presumes the framework in which one is working. The type of map is and always will be the same as the type of function. This is a simple fact of type theory, so it is worthwhile to ponder the value of providing a language mechanism to coerce one into another.
> This is cleverness over craftsmanship. Keeping data and execution as separate as possible is what leads to simplicity and modularity.
No, this is research and experimentation. Why are you so negative about someone’s thoughtful blog post about the implications of formal type theory?