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On 2014-09-11 23:26, Shark8 wrote:

> (2) An aspect indicating a function which is not-only pure, but static
> -- intended to be computed at compile-time; this could, for example, be
> used to make the formulae in the endian-independent paper (
> http://www.sigada.org/ada_letters/sept2005/Endian-Independent%20Paper.pdf )
> directly usable.

It might be a good idea to review what C++ 2011 is doing with constexpr
if you want to go down a path like this. Any proposal of this nature
should take advantage of the whatever prior art exists in C++.

Peter