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It doesn't seem unreasonable to think that "purely functional" means "consisting of pure functions". Why not just say "functional" if that's what is meant?
by thurn 14y ago
It doesn't seem unreasonable to think that "purely functional" means "consisting of pure functions". Why not just say "functional" if that's what is meant?
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- 9mit3t2m9h9a 14y agoThe aim of Nix is to make function from dependencies to resulting packages a pure function. Nix seems to have achieved it with respect to set of packages installed on a system; the most problematic thing now is that some packages manage to detect CPU version at build time... Fortunately, most of them allow to disable this feature.