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