On Dec 25, 5:32 am, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote: > alex23 wrote: > > Because I believe that the source of confusion has far more to do with > > mutable/immutable objects than with early/late binding. Masking or > > 'correcting' an aspect of Python's behaviour because novices make the > > wrong assumption about it just pushes the problem elsewhere and > > potentially makes the language inconsistent at the same time.
Thats hitting the nail on the head. > > That seems fairly silly -- foo.append(bar) obviously mutates > _something_ . Certainly it wasn't the source of my confusion when I > got caught on this. What makes you believe that the fundamental > confusion is about mutability? The confusion is not about mutability. Its about mutability and parameter passing being non-orthogonal. > > (Also, if the change is applied everywhere, the language would not be > inconsistent.) Obviously that would depend on what the change is. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
