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Re: Evaluate or execute?
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Joost Kremers |
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Re: Evaluate or execute? |
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Sun, 24 Oct 2021 22:05:30 +0200 |
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On Sun, Oct 24 2021, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> The org manual and various documents on Worg appear to use the subject terms
> as
> synonyms for running a bit of source code and gathering its result. Is there
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> useful distinction that this non-software engineer is missing? Or, are the
> terms simply synonymous?
To me, the term "evaluate" suggests that the piece of code returns a value that
one is interested in, while "execute" suggest that the code has some side effect
and doesn't return a value (or one that is ignored). Though I doubt this is a
very firm distinction that is strictly adhered to. For practical purposes, you
can probably consider them synonymous.
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Joost Kremers
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