[fpc-pascal] methods of an object to create others objects

[Reimar Grabowski]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 16:51:54 -0300
Marcos Douglas <md at delfire.net> wrote:

> What do you mean "a function has effects is already bad"?
> A function/procedure always has effects, don't?

IMHO he means that a function should only return a value and not change the state of an object, a variable or any other program state at all.
This is good practice but there are obvious cases where this rule makes no sense, for example boolean functions, that use the return value to indicate success/failure, etc.

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