Needless copying in iterations?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:50:39 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> The point is rather moot, since CPython (and probably other Pythons) do 
> almost no optimizations. But just because Python is a dynamic language 
> doesn't mean there are no optimizations possible: Haskell is a dynamic 
> language, and there are optimizing compilers for it. Of course, it is 
> much simpler for Haskell, because of the type system it uses.

What do you mean by Haskell is a dynamic language?  It is statically and
strict typed and the compiler usually knows all the functions.  No
"surprises", no side effects, no duck typing.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch