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Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:12:15 +0200
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On 09.07.10 15:45, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 06:21:07 -0700 (PDT), Marco wrote:
> 
>>   Agreed - it is either a function that returns a value or a procedure
>> that can manipulate state not both
> 
> Function manipulates the state of its result.
> 
> (Stateless computing is a fiction)

When the word "function" is just not present in
a programming language, is there a problem at all?
I mean, do people complain?

Every terminating procedure does compute a function
from input variables and stores the result in some
output variables. Correct?

Do we want "function"?  Or do we want "modifies"?