M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > My personal favorite is making the compiler > smarter to detect the mentioned if-elif-else scheme > and generate code which uses a lookup table for > implementing fast branching.
But then the values need to be actual compile-time constants, precluding the use of symbolic names, values precomputed a run time, etc. A new statement would allow us to simply document that the case values are *assumed* constant, and then the implementation could cache them in a dict or whatever. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
