Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Please explain why it's a performance problem for Python but not for other languages. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
