On 1 Jun, 12:55, Steve Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FWIW there's the possibility that even without a > subexpression syntax, some Python implementations > would detect the duplication of x*x and optimize that > for you. It would have to know that x*x had no side > effects, which I think is a safe assumption even in a > dynamic language like Python.
On the basis of you believing that x is one of the built-in numeric types, yes, but how does the compiler know that? Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
