GNU bug report logs - #13823
24.3.50; Elisp manual description of property `pure'

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Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:46:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Christopher Schmidt <christopher <at> ch.ristopher.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: 13823 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13823: 24.3.50; Elisp manual description of property `pure'
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:27:05 -0500

>> If you can come up with a good description of what it does, I'm all ears.
> There is a nice description of pure in byte-opt.el
>     ;; pure functions are side-effect free functions whose values depend
>     ;; only on their arguments.  For these functions, calls with constant
>     ;; arguments can be evaluated at compile time.  This may shift run
>     ;; time errors to compile time.

Sounds OK.  Feel free to put it in.


        Stefan
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