On 2021年11月29日 12:32:19 +0000 Mark Shannon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am surprised by the insistence on this thread for excluding comparisons > from constant folding. > Why should we special case comparisons? Am I missing something here?
Is it actually special-cased or is it just not implemented? IMHO at compile-time there's not much potential (for Python, which doesn't have "true" constants). At run-time and based on specialization, there could be. Regards Antoine. > > We already constant fold a variety of expressions > > 0 * 7 > '' * 7 > True - True > True * False > > (All the above are falsey) > > Excluding 1 < 2 seems inconsistent. > > Cheers, > Mark. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/253RQ2BTTVUEUBFAMULQBBUTMQB5EH2W/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/