And he modifies them or revises them or introduces new positions to deal with some of the difficulties that he was setting himself to be open to earlier.

他会调整,修改那些观点,或者以引入新观点,来解决先前他遇到的难题

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And again, a related problem that people run into is side-effects. You call a function and it returns a value, but maybe it, on purpose or on accident, modifies one of the actual parameters.

另外，一个人们常碰到的相关问题,就是副作用，你调用一个函数它返回一个值,但是故意或者无意的,它可能会修改一个实参的值。

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