[Haskell-beginners] can I use "pure" all the time instead of "return" now?

[Iustin Pop]

On 2016-05-15 10:29:34, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> 
> >  the name [return] "stains" the functional semantics in Monadic code,
> > in my opinion
> 
> Amusing. For me, the term "pure" stains monads as impure or diluted.
> The moral overtones of "pure", as in "purely functional language",
> drive out more benign interpretatations such as "unadorned". Not
> a felicitous coinage.

That only happens if we give moral values to such technical terms. And
probably happens more often to native English speakers; for me, it's
much easier to separate Applicative pure from other meanings of pure.

Interesting :)

regards,
iustin