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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH][5] Move foldable binding annotations into
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Evan Hanson |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH][5] Move foldable binding annotations into types.db |
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Wed, 1 Oct 2014 00:17:21 -0700 |
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On 2014-10-01 8:57, Peter Bex wrote:
> Shouldn't the same be done for #:pure? If a procedure is purely
> functional, it should be referentially transparent, which means it
> should be foldable. Or am I overlooking something here?
I believe so: the requirement that certain procedures always return
newly allocated objects. For example, `cons`, while pure, should never
be folded.
Evan