GC.malloc is pure - wat
weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Apr 24 17:30:27 PDT 2015
On Friday, 24 April 2015 at 23:27:36 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
> All I'm saying is that GC.malloc alters global state. I agree
> that it's OK to pretend that it doesn't because as long as you
> agree not to base things on this knowledge, you are fine
> calling pure functions that use GC.
A lie that is universally agreed upon is virtually
indistinguishable from the truth.
the reasons against making malloc/free pure are very... thin.
Walter himself attempted to make them pure only last week(!)
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/1221
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