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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Naming convention to identify functions with side effects
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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?

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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