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Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:00:19 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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Henry Olders wrote:
> [...] what I want is a function that is free of side effects [...]

Shoot, that's easy!  Just write your function to not have any!

~Ethan~