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That's a fair criticism. What is the correct word for "this request always generates an identical response"?
by edent 7y ago
That's a fair criticism. What is the correct word for "this request always generates an identical response"?
- matharmin 7y agoImmutable
- edent 7y agoAha! Yes. Thanks. I'll update the blog post.
- DarkWiiPlayer 7y agoImmuteble describes data, whereas an API call is more like a function call, in which case we'd call the property "referential transparency", which means, a function always returns the same result for a given input value. "referential transparency" makes up half the definition of a "pure" function, with the other half being the absence of side effects.
- marton78 7y agoPure
- DarkWiiPlayer 7y agoPure also means no side effects, which isn't, strictly speaking, what OP means :)
- opifex 7y agoDeterministic