[dmd-internals] Changes for pure, nothrow, and @safe done for the moment?
Walter Bright
walter at digitalmars.com
Sun Jun 26 21:00:24 PDT 2011
On 6/26/2011 8:50 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/26/11 10:34 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I'm going to just back out the warning about pure functions with no effect.
>
> Why? I think that would be a mistake. Roll in any way you wish (after fixing
> bugs and all), but do roll it it. There's absolutely never a good reason to
> call a pure function and ignore its result, unless you just want to keep the
> CPU warm.
>
Because with pure & nothrow inference, it breaks a lot of code, for example code
like this:
void foo(int i)
{
assert(i == 3);
}
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