On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 12:17:21AM -0700, Evan Hanson wrote: > On 2014-10-01 8:57, Peter Bex wrote: > > Shouldn't the same be done for #:pure? If a procedure is purely > > functional, it should be referentially transparent, which means it > > should be foldable. Or am I overlooking something here? > > I believe so: the requirement that certain procedures always return > newly allocated objects. For example, `cons`, while pure, should never > be folded.
Thanks for pointing that out. That's so obvious I missed it ;) How about pure functions returning only immediate values? Those are always interchangeable, so should be always foldable. Cheers, Peter -- http://www.more-magic.net _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
