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

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Thu May 28 17:05:56 CEST 2015

On 28/05/2015 15:47, Skip Montanaro 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. :-) Skip

That's good, otherwise you'd just be repeating what Raymond said further up this subthread two hours and one minute before you didn't say it :)

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Mark Lawrence

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