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[Manu]

On 9 April 2013 20:50, Timon Gehr <timon.gehr at gmx.ch> wrote:

> On 04/09/2013 12:28 PM, Manu wrote:
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>> There's nothing 'pure' about a function that has side effects.
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> If it has the same side effects every time it is called with the same
> arguments, then there is something pure about it.


But it doesn't. It could do anything when called a second time, same
arguments or not.
The only thing it can't do is escape a variable. That sounds more like
'scope' to me than 'pure'.
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