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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/9/13 4:04 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 April 2013 at 07:57:37 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> Are you saying the example above is not actually valid code?
>>
>> struct Foo {
>> int a = 0;
>> pure int bar( int n ) { // Weakly pure
>> a += n;
>> return a;
>> }
>> }
>>
>> That's not pure. Call it twice with the same args, you'll different
>> answers. How can that possibly be considered pure in any sense?
>> And it's useless in terms of optimisation, so why bother at all? What
>> does
>> it offer?
>
> It is valid code. It is "weak pure". "pure' keyword means both
> "strong pure" or "weak pure" depending on function body. Crap.

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Andrei