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Huh, is this what Nix users mean by “impure”? If so, then it makes so much more sense to me now.
by chisquared 3y ago
Huh, is this what Nix users mean by “impure”?
If so, then it makes so much more sense to me now.
- rgoulter 3y agoYes, but 'pure' might mean different things at different levels. In a programming language, 'pure' would just refer to "function where you get the same output from the same input; no side effects". In parent's case, there was an 'impurity' such that the package is meaningfully different depending on the machine it was built on.