Michael Chermside wrote: > I must > be unusually lucky in this regard, because I meet lots of people who > are very concerned about the fact that it *is* possible to change > these values.
Occasionally I wonder whether it would be useful to have some form of const declaration in the language, not to prevent accidental change, but so that access to them can be optimised. E.g. in const GET = 'GET' def f(address): html_fungle(address, GET) the access to GET in the function could be compiled into some sort of array lookup instead of a global dict lookup. Although if a way is found to optimise global accesses in general, this might become unnecessary. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiam! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
