On Thursday, 19 December 2013 at 22:07:31 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Why they have removed (?) purity-on-default from Rust language:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.rust.devel/3855
There is also the Reddit thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1t8y6g/why_rust_ditched_pure_functions/
Bye,
bearophile
Have just read that and my reaction was "woot?" (though as far as
I have understood, it is not being removed, just refused to be
added). Well decision itself is discussable but rationale comes
essentially to "we can't define what `pure` means" which is..
weird.
