> The LAST thing you want is a non-deterministic process monkey patching your code.
I'm not poking fun of you, but the irony here is that code-as-written is mostly a "suggestion" to modern compilers and JIT interpreters and the actual instructions emitted often look nothing like your ver-batim code.

okay but at least those are provably equivalent, unless my understanding is off. isn't that the whole impetus behind the idea of functional programming?