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Comment by kingdomcome50

Does this solve the problem though? I'll be honest, I'm not very familiar with Haskell (and frankly only casually use FP in general), but I don't see how the pattern in your link alleviates my concern.

The problem (truly the problem) is about _where_ one defines behavior. It's the expression problem (EP) at its core. A FP approach separates data and behavior in a way that makes adding new behaviors to the same data types easy and OOP combines them in a way to make adding new data types to the same behaviors easy. It's literally the difference between:

    let model' = update model msg
and:

    let model' = model.update msg
Like I said, I don't know Haskell very well (and had a hard time grokking the link), but any purely functional language will suffer from the former over the latter. The side of the EP a language falls on is simply as a matter of the data types/type system available.

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