From: David Garamond <davegaramond@...>
Date: 2002-08-24T21:47:14+09:00
Subject: Re: equivalent of python's __debug__

ts wrote:
>>>>>>"D" == David Garamond <davegaramond@icqmail.com> writes:
>>>>>
> 
> D> def foo(self, x, y):
> D>      if __debug__:
> D>          self.__doc__x = "...some longish string..."
> D>          self.__doc__y = "...some also longish string..."
> D>          self.__doc_spec1__ = "...yet another string..."
> D>          ...
> D>      ...
> 
>  Well, I've perhaps not understood but you can write (like previously said) 
> 
> pigeon% ruby -e 'if $DEBUG; a = "a long string"; p a; end'
> pigeon% 
> 
> pigeon% ruby -de 'if $DEBUG; a = "a long string"; p a; end'
> "a long string"
> pigeon% 

but "a long string" still gets allocated by ruby. i want optimize _away_ 
the debug portion, so ruby doesn't consider it exist at all.

-- 
dave