Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You probably already know that sensible compiled language systems have > used constant folding since time immemorial, but Python has always > eschewed it. That's what comes of being a pragmatist's language: if > such optimizations really are required the programmer is expected to > perform them.
You mean the lack is deliberate? I just figured it was an artifact of the implementation and that PyPy had some reasonable chance of fixing it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list