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Re:I Am Not a Supplier by bhickey on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:55PM (#34202027)
> not just with side effects

I think you're using "side effects" in a colloquial sense while I'm using it in a PL sense.

Pure code is deterministic, operating only on its params. Impure code—code with side effects—is something that depends on state outside of its parameters.

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