On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:09:21 -0400, Robert Brown wrote: > In any case, chances are high that Lisp's way of handling default > arguments would have been changed had it been shown to cause performance > problems.
But nobody is suggesting that it would cause performance problems in *Lisp*. It might, or it might not. Who cares? We're not talking about Lisp, we're talking about *Python*, and evaluating default arguments every time the function is called would certainly cause a performance hit in Python. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
