Discussion Thread: DIP 1042--ProtoObject--Community Review Round 1

[Elronnd]

On Saturday, 15 January 2022 at 10:15:16 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> The issue is not that addresses might change, it's that they 
> depend on global state. Therefore, e.g., iteration order for an 
> associative array will depend on global state too. It's just 
> not `pure`.

It seems to me that any data passed from an impure function to a 
pure one will depend on global state.  And d has no problem with 
pure functions doing things to pointers that are passed to them 
anyway.  So the current state seems fine (or, at least, fully 
consistent).