ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Side-effecting

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Side-effecting is an adjective meaning Causing side effects.

Meaning

Causing side effects.

More Meanings

  1. present participle and gerund of side-effect

Example Sentences

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.
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.

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