23 Dec
2015
23 Dec
'15
8 a.m.
Am 12/15/2015 um 09:55 AM schrieb Alexander Berntsen:
FWIW, I say "effect" rather than "side effect" when talking about Haskell, because in Haskell effects happen when you want them, not as an unforeseen side-effect as a result of the complexity inherent to the source code.
It is often said that having an effect is "difficult" in Haskell. But really, it's just that if you are launching missiles in Haskell, *you actually mean to*. It didn't happen because you wanted to increment i and then "oops, stuff happened".
What is the exact defintion of "effect". Everybody talks about it but I am certainly unable to give a defintion.