Contaminant

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Ben Christel edited this page Oct 11, 2021 · 1 revision

A property of a Routine is a contaminant if callers of that routine also unavoidably have that property.

The term "contamination" comes from page 8 of OutOfTheTarPit.

Examples

State
process-external effects
slowness
async in JavaScript
IO monad in Haskell

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