On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 02:00:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/20/2014 6:40 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:How do they affect global state?Mutexes implicitly share state. It's the reason they exist. They can't be pure, because pure functions don't share state.
If you got that road, you can't allow memory allocators to be used in pure code. That isn't a good argument.
