Lexicon

No Side Effects

Kind: constraint

Layer: Computation Core

Record: lexicon:no-side-effects

Canonical: Lexicon

The requirement that a function compute its result without observable side effects.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Deterministic Behavior and before Properties/Invariants.

Category

  • Correctness / Determinism / Verification

Required by

  • Pure Functions

Linked from

  • Correctness / Determinism / Verification
  • Core Vocabulary