To help LDC/GDC
Dicebot
m.strashun at gmail.com
Tue Apr 9 01:42:00 PDT 2013
On Tuesday, 9 April 2013 at 08:33:53 UTC, Manu wrote:
> How can 'weak pure' reasonably be called any kind of 'pure'?
> It's not pure
> at all. The function returns a completely different result when
> called
> twice. That's the definition of not-pure.
> I suggest that no D language newbie would ever reasonably
> expect that
> behaviour.
It is "weak pure" because it can be called by "strong pure"
functions without violating "strong pure" guarantees
(not-pure-at-all functions can't). It is confusing indeed and I
remember some questions on StackOverflow on topic. I think having
separate keywords/attributes would have helped.
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