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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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