On 12/02/2012 09:19 PM, Regan Heath wrote:
On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:47:26 -0000, Rob T <[email protected]> wrote:
If someone can honestly demonstrate a non-subjective reason why there
must be a difference between function call and variable assignments,
please show it. So far I've only seen arguments that boil down to "I
don't like it".
A variable assignment is in 99% of cases a simple operation. A function
call is in 99% of cases a more complex operation. Being able to
immediately "see" those costs is useful. A language which allows you to
make variable assignments costly will be inherently harder to understand
in terms of cost, than a language which does not.
R
Costs are understood by profiling and/or detailed analysis, not by
looking at trivial syntactic properties.
