[BUG]Collection>>removeAll:
Richard A. O'Keefe
ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Tue Aug 27 01:34:02 UTC 2002
I wrote:
I wish people wouldn't use the term "SIDE-effect" for what is the
MAIN effect of an operation. It's an important distinction. Just as
when a doctor prescribes you a drug, the SIDE effects of that drug are
almost certainly not intended by her, so when an operation has effects
other than its main defined purpose, those side effects may well not be
intended by the user.
"Andrew C. Greenberg" <werdna at mucow.com> retorted:
"Side-effect," as used here, is a long-standing term of art used in
imperative and quasi-functional languages to distinguish between the
returned answer of a message send and the impact of the message send on
the state of the object. I am not inclined to adopt new jargon to
simply for the purpose of sophistic advocacy.
In fact I am using the term precisely the way it was used in the 1960s.
I spent much of this morning in the library checking older books to make
sure my memory wasn't playing tricks on me.
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