Memory allocation purity

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On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 06:24:30 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> If you start using pure in D you see it's like const: it allows 
> you to remove certain kinds of your mistakes from the code, and 
> it makes it more easy to reason about the code.

As lint like functionality, yes.

> You can use mutability inside a strongly pure function. This is 
> a very good.

Local mutability does not affect purity, it is the pre and post 
conditions at the call site that matters.