On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:37 PM, John M. Dlugosz
On 4/14/2014 10:47 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
But it is the *compiler's* problem. "Constant" means "known at compile time" to the compiler.
Pure means pure at run-time over the life of the executable. Just because the compiler doesn't
To you. To the compiler, and to me actually, if it is not known at compile time then it cannot be pure; it may not vary over an individual run of the program but it can vary over the lifetime of the program itself. If I cannot know it *statically* --- at compile time, since it is the compiler that needs to know that it is static --- then it is not pure. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net