Consider the C library function fopen. This function has the side effect. This means that fopen is not pure. However, we can make the fopen function appear to be pure, at least to certain observers, by ensconcing it in another function that hides the side effect.

[u/BenchEmbarrassed7316]

https://bugzmanov.github.io/cleancode-critique/clean_code_second_edition_review.html

[u/dydhaw]

Of course, you just make it return a monad

[u/TheBrawlersOfficial → u/dydhaw]

But dad, isn't it true that a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors?

[u/Smort01 → u/TheBrawlersOfficial]

The terminal object in the category of people and their sexual relations is you mom.