side-effecting

comparative more side-effecting · superlative most side-effecting

1. Causing side effects.

   The difficulty in a pure language such as Idris — that is, a language where expressions do not have side-effects — is that I/O is inherently side-effecting.

   2015, Viktória Zsók, Zoltán Horváth, Lehel Csató, Central European Functional Programming School

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   One feature of our solution was an extensive use of side-effecting functions; we show that such functions simplify the genetic programming paradigm and enable a more powerful machine model.

   1994, Kenneth L. Kinnear, Jr.; Kenneth E. Kinnear; Peter J. Angeline, Advances in Genetic Programming - Volume 1, page 335

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of side-effect