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From: wojtek@power.com.pl (Wojtek Narczynski)
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Subject: Re: What evil would happen?
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Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message news:<slrnbh02sj.4kj.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no>...

> Well then functions with side effects should be more resonable

"Functions" with side effects can only inject their side effect into
where they have been hardcoded to. �This is a serious limitation.
Generics won't help here either as stated in a sibling of this thread.

> than to  make procedures into functions.

Sorry, the reasoning that everything that has return <x> statement is
a function is not very viable.

Regards,
Wojtek