> On 22 Jun 2022, at 19:09, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I suspect that you consider evaluation-on-reference as an important > feature of your proposal, but could you consider explicit evaluation > as an alternative? Or at the very least address in the PEP the fact > that this would close the door on future explicit evaluation models?
I can think of ways to implement evaluation-on-reference, but they all have the effect of making python slower. The simple a = b will need to slow down so that the object in b can checked to see if it need evaluating. How will you avoid making python slower with this feature? Barry
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