On 09/12/2020 18:47, Mike Schinkel wrote:
1. Will enum methods be idempotent?
If not, shouldn't they be?
Can you clarify what you mean here? The only meaningful question I can
think of is "can they change the object's state?" That's mostly answered
in the RFC, most notably by specifying that enums may not have instance
properties, to avoid them having any state to change.
Unless I'm missing something, trying to define "idempotence" or "pure
functions" any more strictly than that would surely be a massive project
in itself - for a start, you'd need a whitelist of all built-in
operations which were side-effect free (i.e. no file writes,
configuration changes, output, etc, etc).
Regards,
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Rowan Tommins (né Collins)
[IMSoP]
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