On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:
I didn't (and still don't) like Joy's heavy-handed hack, but I
see his point, and think it's just fine for the language rules
to allow the compiler to do it hacklessly.
IIRC, in "The Design of an Optimizing Compiler", it says something like:
"The Optimizing Compiler Writer's Motto: It is no sin to make a wrong program worse."