Axiomatic purity of D

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 08/02/2010 08:00 AM, Justin Johansson wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 07/30/2010 08:02 AM, Justin Johansson wrote:
>>> To what degree do the author and advocates of the D(2) Programming
>>> Language believe that it is axiomatically pure and to what degree
>>> to the naysayers believe that it is conversely impure. Further,
>>> does axiomatic purity in a PL really matter?
>>>
>> I wanted to answer this question after others have, but it seems the
>> topic hasn't garnered a lot of attention.
>
> While being somewhat disappointed that this topic has not gathered much
> momentum, my thoughts are now that it was an ill-conceived question.
> Certainly I am not well enough read about type systems and my guess
> is that not many others on this readership are either.
>
> I am interested to know however what the last respondent's exact
> motive was to delay answering the question until after others had.
> Admittedly we all often hold back to see what others are saying
> first so by no means I am inferring any criticism here.

Not much to read into it - I was just curious how interested people are 
in the topic.

Andrei