No not really. I think this is one of the biggest warts of the language.  By the way, glancing over this thread, I’m not sure if you really covered what I perceive as a terminology gap. In FP vernacular, a purely functional language is one that captures all side-effects in the type system. There are very few of these: Haskell, Purescript, Idris (notice these compilers are all written in Haskell), a few others. As a Haskeller who writes Elixir for a living, I can tell you that Elixir does disapp...