[m-dev.] proposal for promise_pure scope warning

[Ian MacLarty]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 05:09:43PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Julien Fischer wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Ian MacLarty wrote:
>>
>>> ( promise_pure ( impure p ) ->
>>>    true
>>> ;
>>>    true
>>> )
>>> The same applies to the case where there is output, but the output is
>>> not used.
>>>> (Which is the "bug" I assume you are trying to address here)
>>> That is a symptom, but the underlying problem is that purity is being
>>> promised away in the wrong spot.  A goal like:
>>>    promise_pure ( impure p )
>>> just makes no sense (regardless of the determinism), because either the
>>> goal should be impure, or p itself should be pure.
>>
>> The G12 FD solver uses constructs like the above extensively (which
>> is one reason I don't want any warning to be enabled by default).
>
> Actually, calls to the automatically generated solver type casting
> functions is another case where one may legitimatly have something of
> the form:
>
> 	promise_pure (impure p).
>

If you say so.

I don't think having a warning that is turned off by default is going to
be very useful, so scrap the idea.

Ian.
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