== Quote from Steven Schveighoffer (schvei...@yahoo.com)'s article > On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:51:31 -0400, KennyTM~ <kenn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Given that the 'new' expression can be used in 'pure', should it be that > > GC allocation functions like GC.malloc, GC.qalloc and GC.extend (?) be > > weakly pure also?
> Yes. But one of the possible issues here: weak purity is determined by > the type of the parameters. GC.malloc only takes non-reference types, so > marking it as pure might make the compiler actually think these are > strong-pure. Would adding a third, dummy, reference-type parameter that takes a suitable default value allow you to hack around this? Cheers, Pillsy
