On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Richard Sargent < [email protected]> wrote: > > Please be careful of complicating the language syntax. Perhaps the better > solution is to improve the optimizer until it can recognize the fact that > the expression really is constant and can inline the generated code. >
That's just implementation details :) (extending the language syntax vs pre-processing & inlining code). I don't care, as long as we eventually have the ability to do simple Dictionary literals (like we do with strings & arrays). > I had an interesting lesson in this just the other day from Martin McClure. > I had been asking for a feature like VA Smalltalk's "compile-time > constant". > I am now convinced that is not the way to go. > Can you elaborate on that more? What did Martin McClure say? (Why did you change your mind that a compile-time constant (I'm not sure what that is, actually) is not the way to go?)
