Proposal: Relax rules for 'pure'

[Robert Jacques]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:13:46 -0400, tls <do at notha.ev> wrote:
> Robert Jacques Wrote:
>
>> Getting back to pure, one of the "big"
>> advantages of functional languages are their ability to automatically
>> parallelize themselves; and they use a work stealing runtime (aka tasks)
>> to do this.
>
> What functional has task? I switch in Meantime when D2 not staple to  
> study this.

Every functional language can do this; it's part and parcel of being  
functional. It's really a more question of how mature their runtimes are,  
as opposed to language support.