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[Aahz Maruch]

In article <9l5h650j8o at enews4.newsguy.com>,
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" (Kernighan, I believe).

Knuth.

In return for this little correction, would you please explain in simple
words exactly what it is that you're talking about?  I'm reasonably
adept at understanding plain classes, but you've been going way over my
head here.  I suspect other readers of c.l.py would like to understand,
too.
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