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bug#13823: 24.3.50; Elisp manual description of property `pure'
From: |
Christopher Schmidt |
Subject: |
bug#13823: 24.3.50; Elisp manual description of property `pure' |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:13:57 +0000 (GMT) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
> 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.
Christopher (<- who would like to see pure documented)