RFC: std.uuid

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Fri Dec 23 14:37:31 PST 2011


On Friday, December 23, 2011 23:09:32 Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
> Johannes Pfau wrote:
> > Related question to the SHA/MD5 hash functions: could those be pure?
> 
> Weakly pure, yes - but for what?

In general, if a function _can_ be pure, it _should_ be pure. If it can be and 
it isn't, it artificially restricts the types of functions which can call it.

- Jonathan M Davis


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