April 26, 2017
10:39 p.m.
On 26/04/17 23:28, Paul Moore wrote:
Or to put it another way, if the only reason for the syntax proposal is performance then show me a case where performance is so critical that it warrants a language change.
It's the other way around. The proposal (arguably) makes the code clearer but does not impact performance (and is a syntax error today, so does not break existing code). The suggestions (decorators etc) make the code (arguably) clearer today without a syntax change, but impact performance. So, those who think the decorators make for clearer code have to choose between source code clarity and performance. E.