> We do this to avoid the (large) overhead of re-creating constants in
> the bodies of loops, functions, etc. Perhaps we need to detect the
> Integer=xxx line explicitly?

Doing this accurately is equivalent to the halting problem.  This is  
what pragmas are for, but do we really want to start supporting all  
these compiler features?  When is sage no longer python?

Nick

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