Lexicon

Hidden Behavior

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Computation Core

Record: lexicon:hidden-behavior

Canonical: Lexicon

Behavior triggered by hidden state or side effects, so outcomes surprise callers.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Floating Dependencies and before Hidden IO.

Category

  • Correctness / Determinism / Verification

Negated by

  • Predictability

Linked from

  • Correctness / Determinism / Verification
  • Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics