On 6/16/2011 6:29 AM, Don wrote:
bearophile wrote:
Walter:
Thanks to Andrei Alexandrescu, Brad Roberts, David Held, and Bartosz Milewski
for their helpful comments and corrections on this post.<
*pulls Walter's ears* You have forgotten who has found this problem :-)
So have I. It was mentioned at the start of 2008 with respect to pure, but the
same problem was mentioned with regard to CTFE much earlier, in 2006 I think. I
think Daniel Keep was the first to mention it.
The acknowledgments did not attempt to credit where the idea came from, just the
people who made comments on a draft of that post.
This thread is particularly relevant:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Temporarily_disable_all_purity_for_debug_prints_134460.html
As for the problem, which is doing I/O in a pure function, that goes back
decades.
