- From: Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:58:25 +0100 (BST)
- To: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org
> 2. Side-effect free and non-functional. Such components have no detectable > effect on the world except for the inputs they consume and the > outputs they produce, but given the same inputs, they may produce > different outputs. One way to look at non-functional components is to say that they have a hidden input, such as something that produces the time for a timestamp. The parallel with side-effects - which are hidden outputs - is then clear. -- Richard
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