Its typicaly considered the worst of all side effects of a programming language. Ive heard it referred to only as a side effect. But there is the issue of rep

Its typicaly considered the worst of all side effects of a programming language. Ive heard it referred to only as a side effect. But there is the issue of representation in quantum physics which is real, observation does change the state. Good question but programming languages avoid this, you would have to coin your own.