[Python-Dev] default of returning None hurts performance? (original) (raw)

Xavier Morel catch-all at masklinn.net
Tue Sep 1 15:09:23 CEST 2009

On 1 Sep 2009, at 03:03 , Gregory P. Smith wrote:

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz_ _>wrote:

Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Did your coworker run any timings instead of basing his assumptions on bytecode size?

In any case, what are you suggesting -- that the last value returned by a function call in the body should be the default return value? I don't think the unpredictability that would introduce would be a good idea. gads no. we're not shell or perl! don't do that :) "We" are not Erlang, Smalltalk, OCaml or Haskell either, sadly.

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