[Issue 15862] dmd thinks functions are strongly pure despite mutable indirections in the return type

[via Digitalmars-d-bugs]

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15862

Walter Bright <bugzilla at digitalmars.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Walter Bright <bugzilla at digitalmars.com> ---
This is as designed and intended.

1. Mutable indirections in the return type do not affect purity determination.
Mutability of the parameters does.

2. An early design decision was that calling new() inside a pure function is an
acceptable special case. (Otherwise pure functions would be nearly useless.)

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