From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Naming convention to identify functions with side effects
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:57:07 +0200
Date: 2008-10-11T16:57:08+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bszufuefg2qs.1hkhs61istvcw.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d032eee0-fbaf-43f4-a18d-9cdf9aeee7d3@b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:32:33 -0700 (PDT), Marco wrote:
> On Oct 4, 6:05 am, "(see below)" <yaldni...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> The whole point of using computers is to cause changes of state.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_effect_(computer_science)
>
> the functional programming folks would disagree with your "whole
> point"
Certainly they should be able to present us a computer without memory,
peripheral devices, clocks...
A program that changes nothing, need not to be run. You can always say that
you already did. How anybody would notice any difference?
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-29 18:17 Naming convention to identify functions with side effects Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-09-29 18:45 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2008-09-29 18:55 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-09-29 19:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-09-29 20:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-09-29 21:10 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-09-30 15:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-09-30 17:40 ` Ray Blaak
2008-10-02 12:33 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-10-03 9:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-06 7:24 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-10-03 11:51 ` Brian Drummond
2008-10-03 12:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-04 12:30 ` Marco
2008-10-04 13:05 ` (see below)
2008-10-04 15:14 ` Gary Scott
2008-10-11 11:32 ` Marco
2008-10-11 14:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2008-10-11 16:05 ` (see below)
2008-10-11 17:49 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-10-11 18:42 ` (see below)
2008-10-03 13:15 ` Jeffrey Creem
2008-09-29 20:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-09-29 22:22 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
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