On 14/01/21 5:29 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
No, I don't think it is possible to enforce lack of side-effects. Not without rebuilding the language from the ground up with a clear, definitive and enforcable distinction between pure and impure functions.(I think Haskell does something like that.
All functions are pure in Haskell -- not sure if that counts as "doing something like that". Retrofitting it into Python would turn it into a very different language. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7BOWX7N54CA6FPGJDCQSEH73MQZKJEEE/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/