On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:56:17 -0700, Paul McGuire wrote: > On Oct 14, 1:36 pm, "David C. Ullrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> In particular default parameters should work the way the user expects! >> The fact that different users will expect different things here is no >> excuse... >> > Are you being sarcastic?
Yes, David was being sarcastic. Or possibly ironic. Satirical? One of those humour things. Whatever it was, I think you're the second person who missed it. > Short of "import mindreading", I don't know > how Python would know which behavior a given user would expect. Exactly. Besides, Guido has a time machine, and apparently antigravity is being added to the standard library, so I don't see why we can't have mindreading too. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
