Memory allocation purity
via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu May 15 06:06:16 PDT 2014
On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 12:37:22 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> To consider the design of pure, you must first consider that
> you cannot add functional purity to an imperative language.
Of course you can. Functional languages execute in an "imperative
context". That's why you need monads.
The term "pure function" is only needed in a non-functional
language. Applicative/functional languages only have mathematical
functions, no need for the term "pure" there.
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