Worlds: Controlling the Scope of Side Effects by Alessandro Warth and Alan Kay, 2008.
The state of an imperative program -— e.g., the values stored in global and local variables, objects’ instance variables, and arrays—changes as its statements are executed.
These changes, or side effects, are visible globally: when one part of the program modifies an object, every other part that holds a reference to the same object (either directly or indirectly) is also affected.
This paper introduces...
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