Mitigating the attribute proliferation - attribute inference for functions

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On Friday, 17 July 2015 at 17:36:08 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> gettime -> impure

Convert UTC time to local time -> pure?

> random -> impure

People expressed concerns about reproducibility of PRNG output, 
which among other things requires them to be pure.

> format string -> pure

Doesn't it depend on locale? Though that dependency is probably 
unimportant.

> Using global state in a non-obvious way is an indicator for bad 
> code.

Convert relative path to absolute path -> pure? thread-safe? bad 
design?

Just nitpicking, but anyway.