Cesare Di Mauro wrote:
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 07:22PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
In my experience it's better to discover a bug at compile time rather
than
at running time.
That's my point though, which you seem to be ignoring: if the user
explicitly writes "1/0" it is not likely to be a bug. That's very
different than "1/x" where x happens to take on zero at runtime --
*that* is likely bug, but a constant folder can't detect that (at
least not for Python).
--
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
I agree. My only concern was about user mistyping that can leed to an
error interceptable by a stricter constant folder.
But I admit that it's a rarer case compared to an explicit exception
raising such the one you showed.
I would guess that it is so rare as to not be worth bothering about.
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