Don Guinn wrote:
> nilad=: monad
> NB. stresses that this verb ignores its y
How about:
side_effect =: nilad
NB. Stresses the most important aspect of the definition
NB. (and serves as a caution and a hint towards reading)
Of course, while all nilads are pure side-effect (else they'd be nouns), not
all side-effecting definitions are nilads (and some
produce side effects based on their input, which obviously a nilad would never
do).
-Dan
PS: By the way, I was surfing Wikipedia the other day, and from its article on
arity, I learned a neat synonym for niladic:
medadic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arity#Other_names
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