Re: constant folding

[John W. Eaton]

On 12/13/2013 07:55 AM, Rik wrote:

> The coding pattern
>
> while (1)
>   ...
>    if (condition)
>      break
>    endif
> endwhile
>
> is pretty common and uses constants in the conditional.

There should be no effect for that because "1" is already a constant 
value that can't be further reduced.  In order to have any effect, the 
constant expression must involve an operator of some kind.  I just 
looked at the parser again and constant folding only applies to binary 
and unary operators.  My recollection was that there were more cases 
(matrix constants, for example), but if there ever were, it looks like 
those have already been removed.  So I really think that this will have 
minimal impact.

jwe