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From: Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Naming convention to identify functions with side effects
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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"