Objects often carry additional run-time overhead compared to pure functions, however.

It was, she supposed, a reduction of clothes to pure function - to protect one's head, back or feet from summer's elements.

When a system is designed as pure functions, they can be reused, or replaced.

Is human happiness a pure function of the amount of material possessions a person has?

A class containing a pure virtual function is called an abstract data type.

For example, both D and Fortran 95 explicitly support pure functions.

The show offers a rare opportunity to view how, precisely, elements of fashion emerge from what was pure function.

This exercise forces each part of the system to have a pure function.

When a system is composed of pure functions, they can be reused, or replaced.

The pure economic function of stock markets - the raising of new capital for entrepreneurs - was also well served.