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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 4850] New: std.conv.to isn't pure

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           Summary: std.conv.to isn't pure
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Phobos
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: bearophile_hugs eml.cc



This is a low-priority request, maybe a long-term one.

With dmd 2.048 this program shows that to!() is not pure:
test.d(3): Error: pure function 'main' cannot call impure function 'to'


import std.conv: to;
pure void main() {
    to!int("1");
}


But in theory the to!() doesn't need to change its inputs, and its output is
deterministic and fully determined by the input value. So eventually to!() may
become pure, so you may use it inside pure functions too.

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Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei metalanguage.com> changed:

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std.conv.to is not pure due to the following function and bugs. The conversions
which trigger them are listed below.

1. std.array.appender
     - array -> string
     - AA -> string
     - struct -> string
2. memcpy
     - void[] -> string
3. std.exception.enforce  (bug 5750)
     - void[] -> string
     - integer & radix -> string
4. the .toString member method is not necessarily pure
     - class/struct -> string
5. std.conv.to itself is not pure
     - array -> string
     - AA -> string
     - struct -> string
     - enum -> string
     - typedef -> string
     - bool -> string
     - array -> array
     - AA -> AA
     - integer -> string
     - floating -> string
     - pointer -> string
6. std.conv.parseString
     - string -> string
7. the .to!T member template method is not necessarily pure
     - class -> any
8. std.conv.ConvOverflowException.raise (bug 3269, should have been fixed)
     - numeric -> numeric
9. 'pure nested function '__foreachbody2115' cannot access mutable data
'first'' (bug 5635).
10. core.memory.GC.malloc (why not use 'new Char[x]'?)
     - uint/ulong -> string
11. sprintf
     - [i,c]double/real -> string

std.conv.parseString is not 'pure' because convError and parse are not 'pure'.
convError is not 'pure' because it uses to!string. parse is not pure due to the
following:

12. ConvOverflowException.raise
13. convError
14. std.algorithm.skipOver
     - string -> enum
15. std.conv.to (including std.conv.text)
     - string -> floating
16. std.exception.enforce
17. 'static const int sign = 0;' near line 1109, should be immutable?
18. std.math.ldexpl
     - string -> floating
19. std.algorithm.skipAll
     - string -> array
20. std.string.icmp
     - string -> bool


(.to!T), unless we require user's .toString must be 'pure' as well, which is
not necessarily possible (considering even making 'opEquals' const is
debatable). Therefore, the compiler or library must support some form of 'auto
pure' for 'to' to choose the strictest attribute
automatically/programmatically. This also applies to the two 'std.algorithm'



which I wonder should they be really 'pure', and avoiding them could reduce
efficiency a lot.

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and of course it requires several functions in std.utf and the range primitives

(https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/80).

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Thank you for your work.

There is a large number of functions in Phobos and druntime that will need to
be tagged as pure. The pure attribute increases the complexity of D language,
so tagging with pure as many Phobos/druntime functions as possible is a way to
make it pay for the added complexity.

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yebblies <yebblies gmail.com> changed:

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*** Issue 3437 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

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Kenji Hara <k.hara.pg gmail.com> changed:

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In 2.064a, the issue has been fixed.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1337

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/4da1639c98cb73d07858b17c2d225063889e4700

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