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Warn for large constant exponentiations #33

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LightAndLight opened this issue May 8, 2018 · 0 comments
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Warn for large constant exponentiations #33

LightAndLight opened this issue May 8, 2018 · 0 comments
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LightAndLight commented May 8, 2018

Python will try to constant-fold expressions like 100 ** 123456789, which takes a very long time. Output a warning when this is encountered.

For extra credit, write a refactor rule that will change such occurrences to

a = 123456789
100 ** a
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