RFC: std.uuid
Piotr Szturmaj
bncrbme at jadamspam.pl
Fri Dec 23 16:31:46 PST 2011
Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, December 23, 2011 23:09:32 Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
>> Johannes Pfau wrote:
>>> Related question to the SHA/MD5 hash functions: could those be pure?
>>
>> Weakly pure, yes - but for what?
>
> In general, if a function _can_ be pure, it _should_ be pure. If it can be and
> it isn't, it artificially restricts the types of functions which can call it.
Yes, Johannes probably want to mark uuid hash gen as pure. I just wanted
to know if its something important as my code used memcpy which is impure.
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