On 14/01/21 6:17 am, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
For example, print() would be considered "pure", as its purpose is to provide program output, not arbitrarily change program state
That definition of purity wouldn't really help with optimisations, though, because optimising away a print() call would still cause a visible change in the program's behaviour. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/B6VDVU7UOB5QNILEJ44J7JOSVBF7WDBF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
