Personally I would say it muddies the water for me, as "container" has strong connotations in other directions. But then I've never thought the concept of a pu

Personally I would say it muddies the water for me, as "container" has strong connotations in other directions. But then I've never thought the concept of a pure function to be particularly difficult, despite growing up on procedural languages. It's other bits that I struggle with when it comes to functional programming.