How would one apply command query separation (CQS), when result data is needed from a command?

Question

In wikipedia\'s definition of command query separation, it is stated that

More formally, methods should return a value only if they are referentially t

Answer 1

CQS is mainly used when implementing Domain Driven Design, and therefore you should (as Oded also states) use an Event Driven Architecture to process the results. Your string result = order.Result; would therefore always be in an event handler, and not directly afterwards in code.

Check out this great article which shows a combination of CQS, DDD and EDA.