[erlang-questions] How to get the line number of currentexecutable code?

[Kevin Scaldeferri]

On Aug 19, 2008, at 11:30 AM, David Mercer wrote:

> Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>>
>> I have also dreamed of a
>>  -pure([f/n,...]).
>> directive, such as NU Prolog had.
>> This would make a verifiable claim that the function(s) named would
>> only call functions that are themselves pure, and a promise that if
>> any exception would be raised in a call to such a function it would
>> not matter which exception.
>
> For those of us not well-versed in NU Prolog, what is the benefit of  
> this?
> Please advise.  Thank-you.


The compiler can perform optimizations which might otherwise not be  
possible.  For example, various sorts of loop fusion optimizations are  
provably safe for pure functions.


-kevin