alt Hacker NewsExecution time, not parse time. It's a side effect of function declarations being statements that are executed, not the list/dict itself. It would happen with any object.
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mattclarkdotnet • today at 4:53 AM
Let's not get started on the cached shared object refs for small integers....
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It's still ridiculous. A hypothetical Python4 would treat function declarations as declarations not executable statements, with no impact on real world code except to remove all the boilerplate checks.