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Issue 7.1

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Side-Effect Free Functions

Write Code as Little Transactions

Issue: 7.1 (November/December 2008)
Author: Charles Yeomans
Author Bio: Charles is a senior software engineer at Dakim, Inc.
Article Description: No description available.
Article Length (in bytes): 6,158
Starting Page Number: 54
Article Number: 7121
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In programming, a method is said to have a side effect when it changes the state of the program. Programs without side effects are much easier to debug. They are also much less interesting. So the trick is to isolate code that changes state. For example...

An object holds a list of weak references to other objects. From time to time, you want to cull dead references from the list. Here is a standard procedural implementation.

Sub RemoveDeadRefs()

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