Origins of the D Programming Language

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Saturday, 1 December 2018 at 16:07:28 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 11:02:51AM +0000, Kagamin via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> [...]
>
> I think you misunderstand the intent here.  Purity by default 
> doesn't mean everything must be pure with no way out except 
> awkward periphrases like monads.  It means you opt out of 
> purity by specifying impure, rather than start with impure and 
> opt into purity by specifying pure. I.e., an undecorated 
> function will be implicitly pure, but if you want impure code, 
> you add an `impure` attribute to the function.
>
> [...]

And maybe, class methods final by default?

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