From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-01-06T13:01:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Compile time constant folding?

Hi,

In message "Re: Compile time constant folding?"
    on 03/01/06, Tim Bates <tim@bates.id.au> writes:

|Shouldn't it be the programmer's responsibility to find these cases and take 
|them outside of the loop while optimising eir code?

It's OK to make them compiler's responsibility as long as it can be
done automagically without changing the semantics.  Unfortunately, I
suspect that's not the case for dynamic language like Ruby.

							matz.