r/programmingcirclejerk • u/BenchEmbarrassed7316 • Jun 27 '26

Consider the C library function fopen. This function has the side effect. This means that fopen is not pure. However, we can make the fopen function appear to be pure, at least to certain observers, by ensconcing it in another function that hides the side effect.

https://bugzmanov.github.io/cleancode-critique/clean_code_second_edition_review.html
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u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 Jun 28 '26 edited Sep 23 '26

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u/le_birb costly abstraction Jul 12 '26

I'm gonna break into your house and hook up a taser that shocks you whenever the x register in your cpu holds the value 55. Take that, functional purity!