Kay Schluehr wrote:
Actually it is simply wrong in the mentioned case and here is the
proof:
def foo():
return 2+2
import dis
dis.dis(foo)
2 0 LOAD_CONST 2 (4)
3 RETURN_VALUE
OO is a heuristic method used to understand the semantics of a
programming language. It can also inspire language design but as
you've rightly said: jugde yourself and see how far you get with it.
It's not wrong. You have found a simple optimization. Lot's of compilers
for lots of languages optimize code by code folding.
Python's peephole optimizer replaces code like 2+2 with 4.
Christian
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