On Nov 24, 2013, at 6:47 AM, Alek Paunov <a...@declera.com> wrote:
> 
> BTW, I see the term "deterministic" in the SQL99 BNFs:
> …
> but different in PostgreSQL ("immutable", "stable", etc):


There is value in compatibility, but those adjectives are awful. In computer 
science we have referential transparency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency_(computer_science)

and pure functions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function

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