On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Martin P. Hellwig <martin.hell...@gmail.com> wrote: > What I would expect to happen that all statements within the ooo block may > be executed out > of order. The block itself waits till all statements are returned before > continuing. >
In a statically-typed language such as C, this can be done by an optimizing compiler, without any hints from the programmer. But in Python, what you're looking for is either a guarantee from the programmer that none of the statements has a side effect that affects any other, or that you're prepared to wear it and have a horrendous debugging job if anyone monkey-patches your code or you do anything that makes a, b, or c into something more complex than an integer. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
