On 6/27/11 5:50 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
[…] There's absolutely never a good reason to call a pure function and ignore its result, unless you just want to keep the CPU warm.
There is, especially with pure/nothrow inference for delegates – a prominent example is std.concurrency.receive, which I brought up in the commit comments yesterday: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/9b50184c#commitcomment-448720.
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