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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] deprecate "constant" declaration, document
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Peter Bex |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] deprecate "constant" declaration, document "pure" |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:34:34 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.3i |
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:21:58AM +0200, Felix wrote:
> Attached is a patch that adds documentation for the "pure"
> declaration, which declares a toplevel identifier to name
> a procedure that is free of side effects (and thus calls to it
> may be eliminated). This declaration was previously named
> "constant", which is now deprecated.
Looks fine to me.
Cheers,
Peter
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