On 9/30/2012 11:09 PM, Tommi wrote:
> On Monday, 1 October 2012 at 06:01:24 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>
>> It would be kind of like complaining that a pure function returns different
>> values on Linux and Windows due to a version statement or static if. It's
>> just
>> that in the thing that varies is compile time vs runtime not the target
>> machine. e.g.
>
>
> Actually... let's not even worry about the definition of the word 'pure'.
> Let's just ask ourselves: do we really want to
> live in a world where people can write code like that:
>
> void main()
> {
> auto x = pow2(3);
> enum y = pow2(3);
>
> assert(x == y + 3);
>
> writeln("Take that mr. \"math\" professor!");
> readln();
> }
So, Tommi, do you have a suggestion or proposal to make or are you just trying
to point and snicker? There's a
multitude of ways that bad programmers can write bad code.
