RFC, ensureHeaped

[Rainer Deyke]

On 11/17/2010 05:10, spir wrote:
> Output in general, programmer feedback in particuliar, should simply
> not be considered effect. It is transitory change to dedicated areas
> of memory -- not state. Isn't this the sense of "output", after all?

My debug output actually goes through my logging library which, among
other things, maintains a list of log messages in memory.  If this is
considered "pure", then we might as well strip "pure" from the language,
because it has lost all meaning.


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Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com