The Cost of Dynamism (was Re: Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?)

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:

> I completely agree with you that the keyword should mean "write-once"
> or "never rebind".

That would be possible. I'm afraid that would result in people
sprinkling these "constant" keywords everywhere to make the program
supposedly run faster. -- Something like that has happened with the
"final" keyword in some Java houses.

That would prevent the ad hoc installation of wrappers, debugging tools
etc.


Marko