alt Hacker News>I probably won’t argue that a change that reduces an O(n^5) space/time requirement to an O(1) requirement is a change in semantics, even though it practically is a huge change
Space/time requirements aren't language semantics though, are they?
>I probably won’t argue that a change that reduces an O(n^5) space/time requirement to an O(1) requirement is a change in semantics, even though it practically is a huge change
Space/time requirements aren't language semantics though, are they?
it changes debug semantics
this is the reason guido avoids it. programs will still fail, except now without a stacktrace