- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 09:40:32 -0700
----- Original Message -----
From: "liorean" <liorean@gmail.com>
> On 29/05/06, Andrew Fedoniouk <news at terrainformatica.com> wrote:
>> Axiom:
>>
>> Code which is not altering the state of the world cannot produce
>> anything
>> useful (work) for that world.
>>
>> (C:) Mine.
>
>
> How about something like this?
>
> <img src="javascript:generateImage(1e6*Math.random()>>0);" alt=""/>
>
> function generateImage(seed){
> /* use the seed to write generate an XBM image here */
> return image;
> }
>
> That code could be made entirely side effect free, but still useful.
>From mathematic standpoint:
By its definition Math.random() function is not side effect free
in ECMAScript. It uses static variable for generation of pseudo-number
sequences.
Andrew Fedoniouk.
http://terrainformatica.com
Received on Wednesday, 31 May 2006 09:40:32 UTC