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Side effect (computer science)

In computer science, an operation or expression is said to have a side effect if it has any observable effect other than its primary effect of reading the value of its arguments and returning a value to the invoker of the operation. Example side effects include modifying a non-local variable, a static local variable or a mutable argument passed by…

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Side effect (computer science)

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I/Oinstance ofThe functional language Haskell eliminates side effects0.80text
other stateful computations by replacing them with monadic actionsinstance ofThe functional language Haskell eliminates side effects0.80text
Standard MLinstance ofFunctional languages0.80text
Schemeinstance ofFunctional languages0.80text
Scala do not restrict side effectsinstance ofFunctional languages0.80text
but it is customary for programmers to avoid them.Effect systems extend types to keep track of effectsinstance ofFunctional languages0.80text
permitting concise notation for functions with effectsinstance ofFunctional languages0.80text
while maintaining information about the extentinstance ofFunctional languages0.80text
nature of side effectsinstance ofFunctional languages0.80text

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