Re: [Pyunit-interest] comments on PyUnit

[Jim V. <Jim...@no...>]

Steve Purcell wrote:

.....

>
> I might be alone in thinking that one of the crappy things about Perl
> compared to Python is its plethora of command line switches, but I've never
> thought about Python's command line switches at all, and I'm happy about that.

Me too!

>
>
> Wouldn't the best (and simplest) option be to define '-O' to mean
> '__debug__ == 0 and assertions are disabled', and let the interpreter
> take care of optimisation? Java works that way: it declares that 'final' and
> 'private' methods *may* be optimised away, but allows the user no control
> of optimisation. (Other than offering a don't-blow-my-foot-off option
> '-nojit', of course.)

This seems reasonable to me also.

>
>
> If the interpreter needs to be told what optimisations to make by the
> user, there is something wrong, and opportunities are then rife for code to
> appear that *requires* certain optimisations. Next, there'd have to be
> pragmas, right?
>
> -Steve
>
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