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side-effecting

side-effecting adjective: causing side effects. Also the present participle and gerund of side-effect.

Adjective

side-effecting (comparative more side-effecting, superlative most side-effecting)

  1. Causing side effects.
    • 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.1994, Kenneth L. Kinnear, Jr.; Kenneth E. Kinnear; Peter J. Angeline, Advances in Genetic Programming - Volume 1, page 335
    • 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.2015, Viktória Zsók, Zoltán Horváth, Lehel Csató, Central European Functional Programming School

Also used as

side-effecting is also the present participle and gerund of side-effect.

Forms of side-effecting

comparativemore side-effecting
superlativemost side-effecting

Questions about side-effecting

What does side-effecting mean?
Side-effecting means causing side effects.
What part of speech is side-effecting?
Side-effecting is an adjective.

Words near side-effecting in the dictionary

  1. side-dish
  2. side-dishes
  3. side-effect
  4. side-effect-free
  5. side-effected
  6. side-effecting
  7. side-effects
  8. side-eye
  9. side-eyed
  10. side-eyeing
  11. side-eyes

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