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   From: pete@versatilecoding.com   
      
   On 2011-12-19 20:17:22 +0000, Stuart Heinrich said:   
      
   > There is no reason why the output of a simple function like "sin(1.5)"   
   > that has no side effects cannot be precomputed during compilation --   
   > no reason, except that the compiler may not be able to detect the fact   
   > that this function has no side effects.   
   >   
   > I propose a simple keyword "innate" to resolve this issue.  If a   
   > function is declared with keyword innate, and the function is called   
   > using inputs that are all compile time constants, then the output of   
   > the function should be guaranteed to be a compile time constant as   
   > well.   
   >   
      
   How does this differ from the C++11 "constexpr"?    
      
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