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# Referential transparency

* it implies that functions consistently yield the same results given the same input, irrespective of where and when they are invoked.
  * That is, function evaluation depends less—ideally, not at all—on the side effects of mutable state
* This is a property of immutability
  * we get an object and we expect it not to change