It seems pure ain't so pure after all

[Tommi]

On Monday, 1 October 2012 at 08:00:47 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
>
> The only real problem here is that you wrote a function called 
> pow2 that effectively returns 6 unconditionally. I doubt your 
> math professor would be particularly impressed. If you had used 
> __ctfe properly, it would return the same value both at 
> compile-time and runtime. At present, __ctfe is a necessary 
> evil as CTFE can be severely crippled without it.

I solemnly swear not to use __ctfe improperly. But my problem 
with it is, that there *exists* the possibility of improper use 
of __ctfe.

Plus, I just realized, I've never actually met any math 
professor. I never went to a university (nor study programming 
for that matter).