Memory allocation purity

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/14/2014 5:03 PM, Meta wrote:
> Allocating memory through new and malloc should always be pure, I think, because
> failure either returns null in malloc's case,

malloc cannot be pure if, with the same arguments, it returns null sometimes and 
not other times.


> or throws an error in new's case.

A non-recoverable error.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^