Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> writes: > >> No other objects have code objects. No other objects in Python have > >> this special optimization. > > > > Yes. The two facts are directly related. […]
> > Yes, functions are different and are treated differently. What's > > your question? > > My point is that functions are special in Python because they provide > a built in optimization via the special execution of code objects. Functions are special because they define a code object. > I would like to know if it is really that big a deal Is *what* really that big a deal? Perhaps this could be clearer if you'd describe what it is that surprises you, and how you'd expect it to be different. > and if the optimized execution of code objects is a CPython > implementation detail or a specification of the language. I don't know that it's a specification. But functions result in code objects, and other statements don't; I am not seeing why treating them differently is surprising. -- \ “I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at | `\ least ten years.” —Bill Gates, 1994 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
