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> "side effects" A side effect would be like submitting an order for am Amazon Echo by mistake. This is a bug, a serious bug, that leads to variables being as

by oblong 8y ago

> "side effects" A side effect would be like submitting an order for am Amazon Echo by mistake. This is a bug, a serious bug, that leads to variables being assigned the wrong value.

brianpan 8y ago
"side effects" because this is only a problem if your lhs is not stateless (has side effects).
- oblong 8y ago
  Variables are supposed to store state - that's the point of them. A side effect by definition is a change in state to something else.