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0 pointsdsp12349y ago0 comments

I work in VBScript inside of classic ASP and the statement, "Also anytime a functions scope terminates, all its memory immediately goes away.", is true there. I doubt anyone would suggest that VBScript is a functional language with immutable data structures.

Additionally, all memory used by a page is cleaned up when the page is finished processing. This has to do with "Memory is scoped" more than immutable data structures.

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philosopheer9y ago

I think you mean memory usage is lexically scoped because no pointers to blocks are saved or returned? I think, and didn't really want to think harder, just thought in the same sense that functional brings some useful baggage with it, so does lexical scope.

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