On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:38:47 +0200, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
On 8/11/2012 7:30 AM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
On Saturday, 11 August 2012 at 09:40:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Consider `pure` member functions - turns out most of them are actually
pure
because the implicit `this` parameter is allowed to be mutated and it's
rare for
a member function to mutate global state, yet we all strive to correctly
decorate our methods `pure` when applicable.
A better design would be to have pure be the default and impure would
require annotation. The same for const/immutable. Unfortunately, it's
too late for that now. My fault.
I have thought that many times. The same with default non-null class
references. I keep adding assert(someClass) everywhere.
