From: Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Naming convention to identify functions with side effects
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:32:33 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2008-10-11T04:32:33-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d032eee0-fbaf-43f4-a18d-9cdf9aeee7d3@b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: C50D28B0.FB1BD%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk
On Oct 4, 6:05 am, "(see below)" <yaldni...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On 04/10/2008 13:30, in article
> d49286ef-faa1-4b1b-8e23-0ed80c015...@p10g2000prf.googlegroups.com, "Marco"
>
> <prenom_no...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Oct 3, 5:28 am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
> > wrote:
> >> Side-effects are bad in any subprograms, be them functions or procedures.
>
> > Technically "side-effects" are being used whenever you change an
> > internal state in a module, which is not always undesired.
>
> These are not "side-effects", they are just effects.
> 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"
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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 [this message]
2008-10-11 14:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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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