In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:14:49 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> In message >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Aaron "Castironpi" Brady wrote: >> >>> Do you ever want to scream from the rooftops, "'append' operates by >>> side-effect!"? >> >> No. It's an effect, not a side-effect. > > "Side-effect" has the technical meaning in functional languages of any > change of state that isn't the creation and return of a function result.
"Side" means that it happens as the by-product of returning a function result. "<list>.append" isn't a function, it's a procedure. Hence the modification of the list is the primary effect, not a side effect. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
