top | item 36389832 (no title) chisquared | 2 years ago Huh, is this what Nix users mean by “impure”?If so, then it makes so much more sense to me now. discuss order hn newest rgoulter|2 years ago Yes, but 'pure' might mean different things at different levels.In a programming language, 'pure' would just refer to "function where you get the same output from the same input; no side effects".In parent's case, there was an 'impurity' such that the package is meaningfully different depending on the machine it was built on.
rgoulter|2 years ago Yes, but 'pure' might mean different things at different levels.In a programming language, 'pure' would just refer to "function where you get the same output from the same input; no side effects".In parent's case, there was an 'impurity' such that the package is meaningfully different depending on the machine it was built on.
rgoulter|2 years ago
In a programming language, 'pure' would just refer to "function where you get the same output from the same input; no side effects".
In parent's case, there was an 'impurity' such that the package is meaningfully different depending on the machine it was built on.