Oh, lord, I'm turning into a functional programmer...

It's been a long time coming, but I'm finally beginning to grok pure FP. I'm in the process of rewriting SpaceCore (one of the most dead-central Actors in modern Querki) to make the guts of all the functions pure, pulling all the side-effects out to the edges. (Not out of any sense of righteous purity, but because I need these bloody things to be composable, and it's the best way to do it.)

And I just caught myself saying, "Ah, that class is a Semigroup; I should probably instantiate that typeclass, so that I can combine the instances".

No doubt you'll find me in some alley sometime soon, mumbling about Applicatives, Free Monads and other such Cthulhoid horrors. Have pity on me...