side-effecting
adj1
Causing side effects.
- 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.1994, Kenneth L. Kinnear, Jr.; Kenneth E. Kinnear; Peter J. Angeline, Advances in Genetic Programming - Volume 1, page 335:
- 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.2015, Viktória Zsók, Zoltán Horváth, Lehel Csató, Central European Functional Programming School: