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

[John Porter]

Dan Sugalski wrote:
> :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...

It shouldn't necessarily have to.
If I *tell* it it's safe, that should be the end of the story.
It don't get much more optimal than that.

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John Porter