[caf]

Particularly if the editor can do things like constant folding and branch elimination based on constants that are being passed at that point.

[jakub_h]

That's just the editor doing the compiler's work at edit time, though. I know that Chuck Moore has always advocated extreme early binding, but that really is usually associated with Forth, not with mainstream languages.

[caf]

I didn't mean that the editor would change what was presented to the compiler, just that it would simplify for the user when expanding the use of helper functions.