From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-06-03T00:09:03+09:00
Subject: Re: binding, ObjectSpace._id2ref [WAS] Re: [ANN] parseargs-0.0.0


Glenn Parker said:
> OK, but you have to admit that "y = 0 if false" is Dark Magic.  Who is
> going to understand what is going on there?  An optimizing interpreter
> might justifiably toss the entire statement.

No argument ... I wasn't offering it as a coding practice, but as a
demonstration that it is the presence of the "y=something" at compile
time, as opposed to the execution of the statement at runtime, that makes
the difference.

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