<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 12, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Eric Tanter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I remember that someone, some time ago (how precise!), posted on this list a link to a couple of slides that nicely and concisely illustrate the advantages of pure functions vs. impure ones when doing testing. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>This is probably not what you're remembering, but you could take a look at <a href="http://home.adelphi.edu/sbloch/papers/func-imp-testing.pdf">http://home.adelphi.edu/sbloch/papers/func-imp-testing.pdf</a></div><div>which is one of my slides from a conference talk.<br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Stephen Bloch</div><div><a href="mailto:sbloch@adelphi.edu">sbloch@adelphi.edu</a></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br></body></html>