On Oct 15, 11:05 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED] central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: > > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:39:30 -0700, kenneth (a.k.a. Paolo) wrote: > > >> On Oct 9, 10:14 am, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> No, it always contains the default argument because default values are > >>> created just ONE TIME > > <http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-are-default-values-shared-between-objects>... > > > > >> Wow, it's a very "dangerous" behavior ... > > > No, it's very *useful* behaviour. > > Can you give an example of how useful it is? Something worth the pain of > newbies tripping over it every week?
Not to be overly practical, but what kind of community push would van Rossum need in order to make a change, especially with 3.0 almost out? Even if everyone agrees, it seems too late even for the entire 3.x series, to be changing something that deeply embedded in not only _syntax_, but programmers' minds. I'd say a decorator would be a viable alternative, but even that would be hard to get into the language now. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
