What are pure functions in D?
Chinweuba Elijah AzubuikeOverview
In D, pure functions have the following properties that separate them from other functions:
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They are preceded with the
purekeyword during declaration. -
They have global and static mutable state restrictions.
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They can only call pure functions and can override impure functions.
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They can modify the local state of a function.
Importance of pure functions
Pure functions do not have an external connection. When we’re debugging them, we don’t have to worry about their interaction with the entire application code.
Example
import std.stdio;
int g = 45;
int h = 30;
pure int purefunc( int x,int y) {
int i = x*y;
// Can use the new expression:
return i;
}
void main() {
writeln("the product of x and y : ",purefunc(g,h));
}Explanation
We built a simple function to multiply two variables.
Line 3–4: We declare and initialize our variables.
Line 7: We declare our pure function using the pure keyword and we pass parameters to it.
Line 8: We multiplying x by y which are the arguments of the function.
Line 10: We return i which is the product of x and y.
Line 13–15: We print the output to the screen by calling the pure function.
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