Hi --
I've been trying to learn more about D's purity features after
reading David Nadlinger's interesting post on this topic. While
'purifying' some existing code I discovered that I can't use
roundTo in a pure function, and I don't understand why. Is this a
general problem with most floatin
On Saturday, June 09, 2012 20:43:42 Chris Saunders wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I've been trying to learn more about D's purity features after
> reading David Nadlinger's interesting post on this topic. While
> 'purifying' some existing code I discovered that I can't use
> roundTo in a pure function, and I
On Saturday, 9 June 2012 at 19:33:55 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Saturday, June 09, 2012 20:43:42 Chris Saunders wrote:
Hi --
I've been trying to learn more about D's purity features after
reading David Nadlinger's interesting post on this topic. While
'purifying' some existing code I disco
On Sunday, June 10, 2012 04:06:03 Chris Saunders wrote:
> Thanks Jonathan. Sounds like a practical issue rather than some
> theoretical problem -- good to know.
The vast majority of purity issues with Phobos are purely an implementation
issue and not any kind of limit in the language. Obviously s
