FP in D (today)

[Walter Bright]

On 2/24/2012 12:20 PM, Gour wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:45:38 -0800
> Walter Bright<newshound2 at digitalmars.com>  wrote:
>
>> The main issue with FP in D today is it needs to be pervasively used
>> in Phobos. A large part of Phobos should be marked as pure, but is
>> not, making it difficult to use Phobos from FP code.
>
> Heh, that's interesting...
>
>> For example, Object.opEquals should be pure, nothrow, @safe.
>
> This is scheduled for the next release?

Not sure yet, but you should certainly be marking all your opEquals that way now.

>
>> The inheriting purity thing helps significantly with that.
>
> Good...we're enthusiastic to put FP's in D on the severe test...hoping
> to use D as 'the world's most practical FP language'. ;)
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour
>