| From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: leakproof |
| Date: | 2012-02-21 16:02:29 |
| Message-ID: | CAHyXU0yuop+X84wRqnmuL50MrDUeTC+jFjZeFkyLnxMh0=TSWg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 19, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> Having now spent far too much time in bed with that patch, I'm feeling
>>> like the concept that we are really looking for there is what some
>>> languages call "pure" - that is, there must be no side effects,
>>> whether by throwing exceptions or otherwise.
>>
>> Hmm, "pure" doesn't sound bad to me. Nice and short.
>>
>
> Technically, "pure" is stronger than "has no side effects":
+1 pure.
merlin
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