[Haskell-cafe] Re: Fwd: Haskell as a religion

[Chung-chieh Shan]

Henning Thielemann <schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de> wrote in article <494AE7A3.3000306 at henning-thielemann.de> in gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe:
> In C/C++ referential transparent functions code can be declared by
> appending a 'const' to the prototype, right?

No.

$ cat x.cc 
int f() const;
int f() { return 3; }
$ gcc x.cc 
x.cc:1: error: non-member function ???int f()??? cannot have cv-qualifier

You can define a const member function, but it can call rand() just
fine.

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