SIDEEFFECT

Side Effect

Side Effect was an American disco and jazz-funk band, that recorded between 1972 and 1982. The group was formed by founder and leader Augie Johnson in Los Angeles, California in 1972.

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Side effect

In computer science, a function or expression is said to have a side effect if, in addition to returning a value, it also modifies some state or has an observable interaction with calling functions of the outside world. For example, a function might modify a global or static variable, modify one of its arguments, raise an exception, write data to a display or file, read data, or call other side-effecting functions. In the presence of side effects, a program's behavior depends on history; that is, the order of evaluation matters. Understanding and debugging a function with side effects requires knowledge about the context and its possible histories.

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side effect

Noun

  1. An unintended consequence of any action in addition to the intended consequence of that action.
  2. An adverse effect, an unintended consequence of a drug or therapy; usually not a beneficial effect.
  3. A change in state caused by a function call (typically "side-effect").
    Eiffel is somewhat purist about insisting that functions have no side effects.


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