On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:30 PM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or by example:
>
> def foo(x)...
> def bar(x,y)...
> there is no reason to confuse the two xes.
>
> Whereas
>
> x = ...
> def foo(x)...
> Now there is!
>
> The first should be encouraged, the second discouraged.
Again, there can be good reason for it, such as snapshotting globals:
qwer=123
def asdf(qwer=qwer):
print("qwer",qwer)
asdf()
qwer=234
asdf()
Done for performance (avoiding lookups), could also be done for
stability (as depicted here) though I've never seen it needed for
that.
ChrisA
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