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Re: Sun Fortress and Perl 6

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From:
Sam Vilain
Date:
April 27, 2005 15:19
Subject:
Re: Sun Fortress and Perl 6
Message ID:
42700FFA.5050202@vilain.net
Luke Palmer wrote:
>>`is pure` would be great to have! For possible auto-memoization of
>>likely-to-be-slow subs it can be useful, but it also makes great
>>documentation.
> It's going in there whether Larry likes it or not[1].  There are so
> incredibly many optimizations that you can do on pure functions, it's
> not even funny.  Haha.  Er...

How about the one that goes further and also implies that the function
is strictly typed throughout;

   is ML

He'd love that, for sure!

:)

Sam.

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