On Thursday, December 27, 2012 02:22:44 bearophile wrote: > Simen Kjaeraas: > > Absolutely. But whether purity should be the default or not is > > orthogonal to this. > > > > I would have preferred opt-out purity to opt-in, but it's not > > exactly make or break. > > The colourful Erik Meijer says that specifying what functions are > not pure is better than specifying what functions are pure: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0N1aZ6SnBk#t=54m53s
It probably would be better for stuff like @safe and pure to be the default, but it's far too late for that now, regardless of how good an idea it would have been. Live and learn. - Jonathan M Davis
