On 2015-07-05 20:29, Stefan Ram wrote: > But why do we not have a common and well-known term for > the counterpart, that something does not modify the state > of the world, but that the state of the world does > influence the value (behaviour) of a call such as > »datetime.datetime.now().time()«?
I believe the term is "idempotent" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotent_function#Computer_science_meaning -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
