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Side Effects

• Accessor: no change to object
• Mutator: changes object state
• Side effect: change to another object
• • Parameter variable
  • static object
• Avoid side effects--they confuse users
• Good example, no side effect:
  

  a.addAll(b)
  
  

  mutates a but not b
  

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