[Haskell-beginners] explaining effects

[emacstheviking]

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 <alexander at plaimi.net>
wrote:

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> On 12/12/15 14:38, Daniel Bergey wrote:
> > 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
> 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".
>
> - --
> Alexander
> alexander at plaimi.net
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