[Python-3000] Reminder: Py3k PEPs due by April (original) (raw)

Jason Orendorff jason.orendorff at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 19:53:22 CEST 2007

On 4/11/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

But there's another Python principle here, I think... complexity of computation should be represented by complexity of syntax. We don't generally like to use properties for expensive computation, or methods for simple field access, for example. Putting in a '+' sign makes the code feel like there's more computation going on, even if the computation gets optimized away.

Hmm. It sounds like what you're saying is, if we're going to do string constant folding, then it makes sense to have a special case in the grammar to reflect that visually.

It's a nice principle, but I wouldn't take it that far.

-j

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