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>> the value of a variable in a language that supports mutation depends implicitly on time
Mind blown.
j2kun
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What blows my mind is that variables in C implicitly depend not only on time but also on the entire contents of memory!
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And also depend on all the contents of disk and network and all attached input devices.
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And if things are multithreaded then shared memory variables depend implicitly upon all possible actions of all possible simultaneous threads.
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Mind blown.