[Python-Dev] Computed Goto dispatch for Python 2 (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu May 28 16:50:18 CEST 2015

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:47 AM Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: > But you could argue that "Special cases aren't special enough to break the > rules" and that's what we are proposing here by claiming Python 2.7 is a > special case and thus we should accept a patch that is not a one-liner > change to gain some performance in a bugfix release.

One can read anything he wants into the Zen. I could respond with this retort: "Although practicality beats purity," but I won't. :-)

Because Raymond already said that. =) And you explicitly made the point I was trying to implicitly make: in this instance there is no clear argument for or against that is going to make this an obvious decision based on PEP 20. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20150528/9e5950bd/attachment.html>

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