Re: XS: possible to have side effects?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to withdraw my question submitted moments ago ... I never took the
time to read the subject line, so I didn't realize that, indeed, we were
discussing the possibility of having side effects.

Many apologies for the wasted bandwidth.

............. Ken

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Please pardon my confusion, but I'd like to ask something about this.

At 13:34 97/06/08 +0700, you wrote:
>given
>
>  (define x (let ((n 0)) (lambda () (set! n (+ 1 n)) n)))
>
>repeated calls to (x) will return 1, 2, 3,...

Then doesn't calling this routine create a side effect?  The return value
isn't deterministic based on one's location within a grove.

This concerns me from a debugging point of view ... I've been under the
belief that each construction rule is independent of all other construction
rules.  Won't the above now introduce variability that isn't repeatable and
then, perhaps, difficult to debug?

Thanks ............ Ken



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