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. People who have been influenced by such functional languages, and many Python users are, often use the same meaning. I for one have no difficulty understanding from context the difference between "append operates by side-effect" and "a function which modifies global variables is having side-effects". -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
