Proposal: Relax rules for 'pure'

[Robert Jacques]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:51:28 -0400, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:

> Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:
>>> If we can define weakly pure functions this way, they most likely will  
>>> be  way more common than unpure functions.  I know I avoid accessing  
>>> global  variables in most of my functions.  Think about a range,  
>>> almost all the  methods in a range can be weakly pure.  So that means  
>>> you need to mark  every function as pure.
>
> I think that's true. I/O is impure, but most other things are not.

The GC also impure :)