2014-07-11 14:19 GMT+02:00 Softaddicts <lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca>:

> I look at side effects this way, will it ever record some state change
> that some
> code in the universe will eventually rely on ?
>
> If no, then there's no state change/side effect to care about.
>
> Sending a message is a side effect (a pgm will eventually use it), writing
> to
> a database, ... qualify.
>

​Then writing to a log file should qualify also. And as I understand it, it
does not.

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Cecil Westerhof

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