Re: pitching names for the attribute for a function with no memor y or side effects

[John BEPPU]

[  date  ] 2001/03/30 | Friday | 11:16 PM
[ author ] John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

Russ Allbery wrote:
> > gcc and the literature both use "pure"; I'd recommend that.

John Porter wrote:
> I like pure too, but I'm afraid the nuance of it will be
> completely lost on non-Functional programmers.

not to worry...  If anything, it might educate them.  I
didn't really grok functional programming before I got
to experiment w/ some functional idioms in a perl context.
I also like "pure" for its great potential in perl poetry.  ;-)

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