Re: pitching names for the attribute for a function with no memory or side effects

[Dan Sugalski]

At 08:17 PM 3/30/2001 +0000, David L. Nicol wrote:
>James Mastros wrote:
>
> > Ahh, bingo.  That's what a number of people (inculding me) are 
> suggesting --
> > a :functional / :pure / :stateless / :somthingelseIdontrecall attribute
> > attachable to a sub.
>
>  :memoizable
>
>  :clean
>
>  :nosideeffects

:contained. Or possibly :irrelevant, since generally speaking most people 
won't use it and the optimizer will have to infer whether it's safe to not 
execute the function every time...

                                        Dan

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