side-effecting

English

Verb

side-effecting

  1. present participle and gerund of side-effect

Adjective

side-effecting (comparative more side-effecting, superlative most side-effecting)

  1. Causing side effects.
    • 1994, Kenneth L. Kinnear, Jr., Kenneth E. Kinnear, Peter J. Angeline, Advances in Genetic Programming - Volume 1, page 335:
      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.
    • 2015, Viktória Zsók, Zoltán Horváth, Lehel Csató, Central European Functional Programming School:
      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.
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