[m-rev.] Extended the promise_<purity> scopes

Zoltan Somogyi zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Tue Apr 26 14:40:21 AEST 2005


On 26-Apr-2005, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > The main diff looks OK, but the test case should be tougher, by including
> > actually impure code.
> 
> Where do you mean?  As far as the body of main/2 is concerned,
> some_impure_string *is* impure.

But not if it inlined. Also, there is no observable effect if the impurity
is ignored.

Effectively, you have written a white box test, and I am asking for a black
box test. A copy of an existing test for purity, with the annotations deleted,
ought to do.

Zoltan.
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