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bug#13823: 24.3.50; Elisp manual description of property `pure'


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#13823: 24.3.50; Elisp manual description of property `pure'
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:27:05 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

>> 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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