On 30/12/2011 10:41, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
This doesn't sound right to me. To me, a "side effect" is something
which happens as a (intended or unintended) consequence of something
else. An effect which you want to happen (e.g. by calling a procedure,
or letting the GHC runtime interpreting an IO Int) is just "an effect".
Trouble is, whether it sounds right doesn't really matter - that's just
an artifact of the meaning you're most familiar with. Any specialist
field has it's own jargon, including old words given new
related-but-different meanings.
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