Benji York wrote: > If by "economy" you mean "optimization", then I would suggest that the > difference would be unnoticeable.
If there is a measurable performance gain in skipping the runtime test in "while True", then this is a compiler issue, not a language issue. I don't know anything about the Python compiler internals, but it doesn't seem very hard to identify simple literals following while and if, and to skip the runtime test. (Perhaps it's done already?) I hope the time is over when language designers build ugly quirks into programming language syntaxes to make life a little easier for the compilers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
