On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 07:22PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> In my experience it's better to discover a bug at compile time rather >> than >> at running time. > > That's my point though, which you seem to be ignoring: if the user > explicitly writes "1/0" it is not likely to be a bug. That's very > different than "1/x" where x happens to take on zero at runtime -- > *that* is likely bug, but a constant folder can't detect that (at > least not for Python). > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
I agree. My only concern was about user mistyping that can leed to an error interceptable by a stricter constant folder. But I admit that it's a rarer case compared to an explicit exception raising such the one you showed. Cesare _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
