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by miroljub 10 days ago
> Why is `pure` a keyword that needs to be added, with impure being the default?

Marketing.

Instead of reading the code littered with "impure" keywords, you look at the beautiful code marked as "pure".

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I'm the creator of Blorp -- this made me chuckle a bit. I hadn't even considered that possibility.
An exclamation mark instead for impure would solve that.
The LLM is just going to leave out the pure by default.