On 02/22/2012 04:29 PM, Marc Munro wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 12:44 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> Returning to the original point, I've come to the conclusion that
>> "pure"
>> isn't the right way to go. The trouble with "leakproof" is that it
>> doesn't point to what it is that's not leaking, which is information
>> rather than memory, as many might imagine (and I did) without further
>> hints. I'm not sure any single English word would be as descriptive as
>> I'd like.
> As the developer of veil I feel marginally qualified to bikeshed here:
> how about "silent"? A silent function being one that will not blab.
I also made this suggestion later in the day.
>
> There are also quite a few synonyms in the thesaurus for trustworthy. I
> kind of like "honorable" or "righteous" myself.
>
Let's not go there.
cheers
andrew
