Modeling side effects as transformations on data is what functional programmers do all day. I'm not talking about monads - simple things like inserting keys into a map and manipulating collections does not rely on side effects in functional languages.
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Characterizing side-effects as a series of supposedly functional transformations doesn't sound quite alright to me.
That said I'm curious about such an approach.
Modeling side effects as transformations on data is what functional programmers do all day. I'm not talking about monads - simple things like inserting keys into a map and manipulating collections does not rely on side effects in functional languages.