On 3/20/2014 7:02 PM, deadalnix wrote:
On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 02:00:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
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.
The analogy doesn't apply. Operator new is regarded as supplying memory from an
infinite reservoir. There is no implicit global state.
The whole point of a mutex is to change state and share it. It's utterly
different.
