Hi, <@U0RM4EPC7>. Thanks for your <blog post> on `Effect`. It all made sense to me, except for thi...

# arrow

[julian]

Hi, @simon.vergauwen. Thanks for your blog post on Effect. It all made sense to me, except for this:

Only when fold is called it will create a Continuation and run the computation, this means Effect can encode side-effects as pure values.

What does pure values mean? I know what a pure function is, but I don't think I've ever come across pure values.

[simon.vergauwen]

Oh, that refers to the fact you can safely assign an impure function to a value in a pure way.

For example:

fun error(): Nothing = TODO()

val impure: String = error()
val pure: Effect<Nothing, String> = effect {
  error()
}

[stojan]

aren't both those compile errors? 🤔

[simon.vergauwen]

fun error() shouldn't have suspend in my example. Updated it

[simon.vergauwen]

Now it compiles

[julian]

Thanks!