On Nov 3, 2004, at 8:09 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 11:04 AM -0500 11/3/04, Sam Ruby wrote:
A single pow_p_p_p op backed by a (non-MMD) vtable entry would make it easier to support code like the following:
def f(x): return x**3 print f(3), f(2.5)
Yeah, it would. I know I'm going to regret asking, but... any reason *not* to make it MMD? (Though I have no idea what happens if you square a matrix)
I feel like we have op-itis and vtable-itis. I would think that rather than a pow_p_p_p, you'd compile "x**y" as something like:
Or, in this case, MMD-itis, since that's the right thing to do here.
If it can be overridden, and in this case it certainly can, then we must allow for it. We only get to scam for speed *after* we meet the basic language requirements.
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