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Fri Oct 14 20:41:24 CEST 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-October/057320.html

> >> > Even better if the lines for a particular piece of code don't
have
> >> > to all come from the same file.
> >>
> >>This seems _fairly_ esoteric to me.  Why do you need it?
> >
> > Compilers that inline function calls, but want the code to still be
> > debuggable.  AOP tools that weave bytecode.  Overloaded functions
> > implemented by combining bytecode.
> 
> Err...
> 
> > Okay, those are fairly esoteric use cases, I admit.  :)  However,
PyPy
> > already has some inlining capability in its optimizer, so it's not
all
> that
> > crazy of an idea that Python in general will need it.
> 
> Um.  Well, _I_ still think it's pretty crazy.

YAGNI


Raymond

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