Adding a Par construct to Python?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 27 May 2009 12:58:02 +0000, Albert van der Horst wrote:

>>And how is reduce() supposed to know whether or not some arbitrary
>>function is commutative?
> 
> Why would it or need it? A Python that understands the ``par'' keyword
> is supposed to know it can play some tricks with optimizing reduce() if
> the specific function is commutative.

Fine. Move the smarts out of reduce() into the compiler. How is the 
compiler supposed to know if an arbitrary function is commutative?



-- 
Steven