February 26th, 2004, 08:51 PM
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Re: 2.08 and Incompatible Battle Reports
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Originally posted by alexti:
I understand that you're talking about the functions which are function in mathematic sense, meaning that for a given set of arguments the result will always be the same, and the return value will be the only data that will be changed.
I don't know if there's a term for such functions.
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A function without side effects would be a referentially transparent function.
[Edit: re-read what I'd misread. Deleted half of my post.]
[ February 26, 2004, 18:58: Message edited by: E. Albright ] |