30 Sep
2011
30 Sep
'11
5:08 p.m.
I had thought we were discussing what was allowed on type T.
Sure, but that doesn't invalidate my statement that the standard's limitations are too strict. I'm just thinking ahead.
Yet "any sentence that starts with 'a clever compiler' should be viewed with suspicion" contradicts the very position you think is reasonable, and was stated as an answer to an example of an optimization a clever compiler might make.
I think you may have misunderstood. I think that it is a reasonable position to view some optimizations as suspicious.