4 Jan
2011
4 Jan
'11
11:51 a.m.
Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
On Jan 04, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Alex Gaynor wrote:
Ugh, I can't be the only one who finds these special cases to be a little nasty?
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Yeah, I agree. Still it would be interesting to see what kind of performance improvement this would result in. That seems to be the only way to decide whether the cost is worth the benefit.
Yuck from me as well. I would guess that attribute lookups would be just as significant as global variable lookups (depending on coding style, of course). In contrast, the local variable semantic change provided a big speed increase for a minor language complexity cost. Neil