On Sun, Jun 25, 2006, Eric Sumner wrote: > > In general, a cached value can be used (rather than re-evaluating the > expression) if: > - The expression has no side effects, > - The result of all operations is deterministic, and > - None of the expression parameters have changed since the cached > value was generated > > The first two can be determined at compile-time without too much > difficulty (except possibly function calls, I'll get to those in a > minute).
Except for properties. So you'd have to allow only bare names, no attributes. You'd also have to restrict values to immutable ones. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped right there." --Steve Gonedes _______________________________________________ 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
