I think "closed strict function" is adequate for these purposes. By "closed" though, we need only mean "except for the whitelisted globals", using the whitelist at < http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/source/browse/trunk/src/com/google/caja/ses/whitelist.js> as updated for ES6.
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Herby Vojčík <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Irakli Gozalishvili wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I keep running into cases where I would like to know if function is >> pure. Although my interpretation of pure is not quite right but I don't >> know any better name. By pure in this context I would refer to functions >> that don't access an out scope variables and don't >> do any mutations of itself or it's properties no references to itself >> could be an option too. My intended use case for such a feature is to >> > > IOW, 'stateless'; or 'serializable'. For in fact it means, that I can send > f.toString() to the other side and when evaled, I can use it. > > > processes too, it would be great if we had something like >> Function.isPure(f). Also as far as I know jits already capture this info >> for optimisation purposes maybe it could be exposed ? Another >> alternative could be pure(function() { …. }) that would throw compile >> error if >> function followed is not pure. >> > > Yes, it could be nice to have some API to help with this. Maybe not > generic isPure or the like, maybe Function.serialize(f) and > Function.deserialize(**serialized_f) would be enough, the former > returning null if not pure/stateless/serializable. > > It is good to note that the function is serializable not only if it has no > outer pointers, but also when its outer pointers only point to 'known > primitives' (numbers, strings, null, true, false; not symbols). > > > >> Thanks! >> -- >> Irakli Gozalishvili >> Web: http://www.jeditoolkit.com/ >> > > Herby > ______________________________**_________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/**listinfo/es-discuss<https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss> > -- Cheers, --MarkM
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