Congratulations to the D Team!

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/11/12 2:03 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> I think they should be pure as much as I think they should be const.
>
> The reasoning is analogous for both.
>
> We have immutable class instances that want to provide the methods =>
> make them const.
>
> We have pure functions that want to provide the methods => make them pure.
>
> This reasoning is not taking into account the whole picture because
>
> We have implementations of those methods that want to use non-const
> methods in their implementation. (eg. database connection)
>
> We have implementation of those methods that want to use non-pure
> methods in their implementation (eg. database connection, logging)

The essential difference is there's no "pure" object, so there's no 
motivation to plant "pure" on its methods.

Andrei