On 12-03-2012 14:16, deadalnix wrote:
Le 12/03/2012 13:51, Alex Rønne Petersen a écrit :
On 12-03-2012 10:40, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/12/2012 1:08 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
What's wrong with auto-inference. Inferred attributes are only
strengthening
guarantees.
Auto-inference is currently done for lambdas and template functions -
why? - because the function's implementation is guaranteed to be visible
to the compiler. For other functions, not so, and so the attributes must
be part of the function signature.
Isn't auto-inference for templates a Bad Thing (TM) since it may give
API guarantees that you can end up silently breaking?
As long as you can explicitly specify that too, and that you get a
compile time error when you fail to provide what is explicitly stated,
this isn't a problem.
But people might be relying on your API that just so happens to be pure,
but then suddenly isn't!
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- Alex
