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Javier Neira

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shared by Javier Neira on 07 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Semantically, FRP's concurrency is fine-grained, determinate, and continuous.
  • Dynamic/evolving values (i.e., values "over time") are first class values in themselves. You can define them and combine them, pass them into & out of functions. I called these things "behaviors".
  • Each occurrence has an associated time and value.
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  • In software design, I always ask the same question: "what does it mean?".
  • It's been quite a challenge to implement this model correctly and efficiently, but that's another story.
  • The basic idea behind reactive programming is that there are certain datatypes that represent a value "over time". Computations that involve these changing-over-time values will themselves have values that change over time.
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