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Comment by Yoric

2 months ago

For context, it's called "an effect system". IIRC, these were developed in the 80s-90s, but as far as I know, OCaml is the only industrial language that offers any kind of support for effects.

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jimbohn  2 months ago

Didn't know about the terminology, thanks!

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