From: Gabriel Emerson <egabriel@...>
Date: 2003-02-27T15:38:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Compile-time optimization

Or don't raise an error... I don't think optimization should be
guaranteed.  Kind of like 'register' in C... it's more a suggestion than
anything else.

> 2)  Give Ruby a '-O' option that does constant folding and raises an error 
> if you either change the value of a constant or overload Fixnum#+.