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Particularly if the editor can do things like constant folding and branch elimination based on constants that are being passed at that point.
by caf 10y ago
Particularly if the editor can do things like constant folding and branch elimination based on constants that are being passed at that point.
- jakub_h 10y agoThat's just the editor doing the compiler's work at edit time, though. I know that Chuck Moore has always advocated extreme early binding, but that really is usually associated with Forth, not with mainstream languages.
- caf 10y agoI didn't mean that the editor would change what was presented to the compiler, just that it would simplify for the user when expanding the use of helper functions.