24 Jan
2019
24 Jan
'19
11:32 p.m.
On 1/24/2019 6:16 PM, Eric V. Smith wrote:
On 1/24/2019 5:52 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
+1. If it's something that the peephole optimizer is already allowed to change (eg "1"+"1" is constant-folded) and there is absolutely no way that it can ever be changed at run time, then raising at compile time can't hurt [1]. It'd be as implementation-dependent and version-dependent as the peephole optimizer itself.
It would be a change if the code is never called. I'm not sure we care about code that's never called, but it is a change.
Which Chris already pointed out, in some text that I inadvertently deleted. I didn't catch his meaning, which is my fault. Eric