sidecar
1. Synonym slap on the side. Especially used of add-ons for the late and unlamented IBM PCjr. 2. The IBM PC compatibility box that could be bolted onto the side of an Amiga. Designed and produced by Commodore, it broke all of the company's own design rules. If it worked with any other peripherals, it was by magic. [Jargon File]side-effect
A language construct that modifies the state of the system. The most common side-effects are assignment, input and output. A language without side-effects is purely-functional - execution consists of the evaluation of an expression and all subexpressions are referentially transparent.Last updated: 1995-02-16
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SICS ♦ SICStus Prolog ♦ sidecar ♦ side-effect ♦ Siemens ♦ Siemens Nixdorf Informationssteme, AG
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