Proposed new syntax

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Aug 20 22:33:15 EDT 2017


On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 12:19 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 2017-08-21 03:00, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 04:55 pm, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>
>>> Is a Python implementation
>>> allowed to parallelize or otherwise reorder the evaluation loop?
>>
>>
>> No.
>>
> [snip]
>
> Well, I suppose an implementation _could_ parallelise, or whatever,
> _provided that_ it gave the same result.

In other words, it's allowed to parallelise, just as long as
everything happens sequentially. With arbitrary expressions, one of
them could affect another easily.

ChrisA



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