side-effecting
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]side-effecting
- present participle and gerund of side-effect
Adjective
[edit]side-effecting (comparative more side-effecting, superlative most side-effecting)
- Causing side effects.
- 1994, Kenneth L. Kinnear, Jr., Kenneth E. Kinnear, Peter J. Angeline, Advances in Genetic Programming - Volume 1, page 335:
- One feature of our solution was an extensive use of side-effecting functions; we show that such functions simplify the genetic programming paradigm and enable a more powerful machine model.
- 2015, Viktória Zsók, Zoltán Horváth, Lehel Csató, Central European Functional Programming School:
- The difficulty in a pure language such as Idris — that is, a language where expressions do not have side-effects — is that I/O is inherently side-effecting.