On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Brent Dax wrote:

> What if I want my compiler to be lazy?  Do you have the right to punish
> me for my laziness by making me add constant folding to my optimizer (or
> perhaps making me *write* an optimizer just to do constant folding)?

Actually, a really lazy compiler will never use constants with anything
other than "set"!  See the scheme compiler posted here last week for a
good example.

-sam


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