> On Feb 19, 2017, at 21:19, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This is very, very interesting. Thank you so much for the text.
> 
> If I understand your take correctly, the benefits of `pure` in Swift would be 
> contingent on how pervasively it can be used (as it's the composability of 
> pure functions that gives it exponential value). And, based on your 
> discussion, very few functions in Swift would be compiler-provably pure [...]

I think this might, at least partly, be because we can't restrict generic 
parameters to be value types.

- Dave Sweeris 
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