On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 19:19:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/9/2013 6:24 AM, Araq wrote:
("When in doubt, assume it modifies this location.")
And it's usually in doubt, often enough to make that
optimization a pipe dream.
I disagree.
(2) is impractical because there's no way for the programmer
to detect if his
call stack is pure or not, so he can't reasonably fix it to
make it pure.
Well look at the subject: "inherent" vs "practical".
When you're dealing with real code, it might as well be
inherent.
*shrug* so go ahead and redefine the meaning of words as you
please.
That language X is faster than C in "practice" because X is much
more developer friendly and thus you can tweak your code much
easier etc. is an argument of every language out there.
