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Re: functions, optional parameters

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Date Mon, 11 May 2015 00:39:57 +1000
Subject Re: functions, optional parameters
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On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
> On 05/09/2015 11:33 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> What you could have is "late-binding semantics, optional early binding
>> as an optimization but only in cases where the result is
>> indistinguishable". That would allow common cases (int/bool/str/None
>> literals) to be optimized, since there's absolutely no way for them to
>> evaluate differently.
>>
>
> Except for literals, True, False and None, I can't see any way to optimize
> such a thing.

I did specifically say "literals" :)

ChrisA

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functions, optional parameters Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2015-05-08 13:59 +0200
  Re: functions, optional parameters Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 05:09 -0700
    Re: functions, optional parameters Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2015-05-08 14:36 +0200
  Re: functions, optional parameters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 22:39 +1000
    Re: functions, optional parameters Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2015-05-08 14:57 +0200
  Re: functions, optional parameters Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-09 01:24 +1000
    Re: functions, optional parameters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-09 02:02 +1000
      Re: functions, optional parameters Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-09 03:36 +1000
        Re: functions, optional parameters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-09 03:49 +1000
          Re: functions, optional parameters Mel Wilson <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2015-05-08 18:49 +0000
          Re: functions, optional parameters Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-05-09 13:41 +1200
            Re: functions, optional parameters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-09 12:05 +1000
              Re: functions, optional parameters Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-05-09 19:27 +1200
          Re: functions, optional parameters Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-09 12:52 +1000
    Re: functions, optional parameters Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-09 03:26 +1000
    Re: functions, optional parameters Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2015-05-08 17:50 +0200
      Re: functions, optional parameters Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-09 10:57 -0600
      Re: functions, optional parameters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-10 13:33 +1000
        Re: functions, optional parameters Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-10 15:20 +1000
          Re: functions, optional parameters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-10 18:59 +1000
      Re: functions, optional parameters Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-05-09 20:35 -0700
        Re: functions, optional parameters Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-10 15:25 +1000
      Re: functions, optional parameters Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-10 12:45 +1000
        Re: functions, optional parameters Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-05-10 07:25 -0400
        Re: functions, optional parameters Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-11 00:39 +1000
        Re: functions, optional parameters Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2015-05-11 07:58 +0200
    Re: functions, optional parameters Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 09:48 -0600

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