Is Date.now referential transparent?
问题 DateTime.Now or Date.now is referential transparent? This is one of the controversial topic in a functional programming article in Qiita. First of all, we must be very careful since the word "referential transparent" is tricky word/concept in a sense, and a prominent discussion exists in What is referential transparency? The questioner states: What does the term referential transparency mean? I've heard it described as "it means you can replace equals with equals" but this seems like an