Why do you prefer "effect" to "side effect"?
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
A good and witty answer :)
On Tuesday, 15 December 2015, 9:16, emacstheviking wrote:
good answer! Having worked on a lot of embedded microprocessor systems over the years... that's exactly the kind of thing you don't want and sometimes all too easy to do by mistake when writing C or assembler!
Good answer!
:)
On 15 December 2015 at 08:55, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
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On 12/12/15 14:38, Daniel Bergey wrote:
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".
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