Alex Gian wrote:
> Thanks Don, that's very valuable to know (don't use tacit for functions
> - oops, I mean verbs - that aren't referentially transparent).
"Function" is an appropriate word. Because more than referentially
transparent, tacit verbs are _functional_. That is, for the
same inputs, they always and forever produce the same output. They can't refer
to mutable state whatsoever.
Here's a couple of longer posts I made on that topic:
http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2009-August/016123.html
http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2009-December/017487.html
http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2009-December/017497.html
-Dan
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