On Oct 2, 12:52 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED] central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > 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.
I was using the technical definition from functional languages, not the literal "per word" definition. Maybe the FL crowd chose their words poorly, who knows? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
