There are. Yes. But the previous poster seems to imply they have NEVER seen code written like that that would be improved by making it a pure function that retu

There are. Yes. But the previous poster seems to imply they have NEVER seen code written like that that would be improved by making it a pure function that returns a value for the caller to assign. Never? That seems unlikely to me. Unless they've only worked with really really amazing programmers. Even then it seems unlikely.