On Friday, 23 December 2016 at 06:53:25 UTC, Observer wrote: [ ... ]
A pure function MUST NOT mutate any state except what is reachable through it's arguments.
This includes ANY operating system state. As for your debugger point. You can break on a pure function as well as on any other.And, yes that breakpoint can be shifted or invalided by compiler optimizations. That is why there are debug builds for which the compiler avoids most optimizations.
