[Edu-sig] COUNTER class.

[Dustin Mitchell]

On 27 Feb 2002, Jeffrey Elkner wrote:

> I couldn't find a way to give this property to assignment. Every time an
> assignment happens with one of these things, I would like to count it.
> Is there a way to do that?

I would guess that assignments you're interested in don't have the form 

  a = 2 * x + 15

but rather have the form

  array[i] = 2 * x + 15

because scalar variables like 'a' are seldom significant in the analysis
of a program, while arrays are.  If, then, you attached an "assign"
counter to array objects' __setitem__ functions, I think you'd be in
business..

Dustin

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