On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 2:14 PM Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org> wrote: > > Thank you for doing this research, Steven. > The designers of 12 languages have chosen to provide late binding; those > of 3 or 4 have provided early binding. > I think this is at least tenuous evidence in favour of my belief that > late binding is more useful than early binding.
Perhaps, but more importantly, it provides strong evidence that late-binding of argument defaults is a real, viable concept and not a hack. (I also find it notable that quite a few of those blog posts, and even the JavaScript language reference on MDN, call out Python as having surprising behaviour. To people coming from those languages, Python's current behaviour is a gotcha, which would become a much smaller one if late-binding were a language-supported feature.) ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/DFMINR3AO753VEG6HS7I44W6YIVZ62OY/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
