On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 4:36 PM J. Gareth Moreton <gar...@moreton-family.com>
wrote:

> I've noticed you're particularly keen on pure functions... what's the
> main use that you envision for them?
>

I'm not the same person of course, but I'm pretty excited about them in
regards to the initialization of constants.

E.G. I'd love to (eventually, at least) be able to write something
roughly equivalent
to this
<https://godbolt.org/#z:OYLghAFBqd5QCxAYwPYBMCmBRdBLAF1QCcAaPECAKxAEZSAbAQwDtRkBSAJgCFufSAZ1QBXYskwgA5NwDMeFsgYisAag6yAwnlSCCxTEwC2G7BwAMAQQuWRghcFV70IFKIIa%2BVuw6cEXILr6hiayXtZWBJhGAA7MUepaBACeMZgsxpiqACqmfsQiyASqAGqYyLLqAOzhqjmqAB6kqsnNAF6eNnVoLHqYDTHEpeWyED169XhNquPF2ap4rTOovXMLbQCUqiCNEFMbzcl7yQeqbXub1XxVACJdy6v9g6oAZsR46ejDFaqoacRMIjEfhjFYTMo/bgANgYCEEzVm30q0OIcK2HBq9zqBgIYhYSIgsMEADoGupeKpUSTpkTiclyTxKXC6c1aW0GUySZtOlY6hi7ryHn0BkM3h8WF8IZU/pgAUCALSg1ZI8kwuEIsHFKWqqnozGC7GYXHEfFSwnMsnyzmk1nM%2BlWqks1Rs1QO5ncsL3fn3WZPUXvT4qmVykgAKiV4JGqqJGuV2pRaKuWMpRrxBNpZND1ppdtUWcdSxd%2BfdGx5lj5tx9mr9rwDEqD/0BJAA9BGtVHoTGhe3IVwobqkwaU8bTSNzdTVM3s7aSfSpwWZ8T2fOS2WKwLy92a2LA0EDMZVcGm8CtBpNBA9yFVfDuyroQA3PW1OpORKaM/krgcACsfC4XDfD971JQCtE/ZpuAAs8gLpUDNHAz84NUYD2WgsDIJ/O5v00FgMM9IccTTQQ12qDdvXwiJLF9EVVCYEQiFUcsNBuJEzxeBhUEBUwMR4WhiS4ZouGJAAWZpZGJAAOcjwmo546IYxlmNYrR2M4jxZDMGohPoVRhP45oJOJWRpJsWShnk1BVHgpSmIpPgKLM2j6MslibNdVR7Jk6saIs1RsESFjyyzTzTO8uTnNUAAxALGMnDyyxsBRiiMJgFAgJ8q3opD3wo7p3CQu5cuWLK0PgswirQErTzAyKEtuKQDgYaRvykUgWGkcxWtQaR314fgnFEcQsjkWhWoIDqGoOABrEBvwATmJKooVkWQ%2BzmiTzChLg5toASmqkYTWvaqROtIbqpFawQQHMUhxpOhrSDgWAkDQWI8AYWVyEoV6Yne2UUGYNgAH19BEFgptIF53qiYgrogAAjCbSHhhQmGIZJpFG0hXqMdICAAeRYBgMfu0gsBStgPqR/ADCKPB70wK7Sf6cp6MkKQsaSzB9tOhg8HhgF0c0DB2ax/Q8CMTGHsB9h%2BH4Rh%2BauyADj%2BAgdF6aR5Xx2RLsGiQ6Ea5qjqR86GgkqF5ShYSZhl1QIFB8GtggXBCBIclZB04W3o%2BoYRq2Xq/x4MaJo2aaQFkBauF22RzFoYS5qqWhE6hCTGGkQ62pN6RLuu26Q8emBEECeiYnor7QW9/76EwfAgToUgAHcARiKXDakFrM9J86RtUBvCAQRpzct62lFYRx7YKR3g/u0PSBmvjzC4YTZET79/1oOa5q4cxZChNODuNrvs6EXO7s62f9q4Q/TvO6fz4OBnYfVkBhKAA>
in
Pascal, where ultimately the structs (or records in Pascal's case) simply
don't directly exist at all at runtime as they're just completely boiled
down to their values.
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