> On 6 Dec 2021, at 00:31, Finn Mason <finnjavie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 5, 2021, 12:11 PM Brendan Barnwell <brenb...@brenbarn.net > <mailto:brenb...@brenbarn.net>> wrote: > On 2021-12-04 20:01, David Mertz, Ph.D. wrote: > > > > There are perfectly good ways to "fake" either one if you only have the > > other. Probably more work is needed to simulate early binding, but there > > are ways to achieve the same effect. > > > > However, that language would not be Python. That ship sailed in 1991. > > What's being discussed here isn't changing the behavior of binding in > > `def f(foo=bar)`. > > > > Instead, it's a discussion of adding ADDITIONAL syntax for late-binding > > behavior. I think the proposed syntax is the worst of all the options > > discussed. But the real issue is that the cases where it is relevant are > > vanishingly rate, and the extra cognitive, teaching, and maintenance > > burden is significant. > > This is a key point that I mentioned in another message (although > that > message doesn't seem to have reaches the list for some reason). > Steven's list is very useful but I don't see any mention there of > languages that allow BOTH late-binding and early-binding, and > distinguishes them with some kind of syntactic flag in the signature. > > Is its not being done before really a good argument against it? It may be > that there simply hasn't been a need in the other languages. > > Also, on a kind of side note, what would be a situation where early binding > is advantageous to late binding? I can't think of one off the top of my head.
You can shoot your self in the foot with early-binding with ease. You have to try harder with late-binding :-) Barry > > -- > Brendan Barnwell > "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no > path, and leave a trail." > --author unknown > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > <mailto:python-ideas@python.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > <mailto:python-ideas-le...@python.org> > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.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/WFCIHHCDJBMBX7J4SNHBNMXTHIP7SJ6D/ > > <https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/WFCIHHCDJBMBX7J4SNHBNMXTHIP7SJ6D/> > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > <http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/> > > -- > Finn (Mobile) > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > <mailto:python-ideas@python.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > <mailto:python-ideas-le...@python.org> > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.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/6H5K6SGUDIXPISJVG4SYP2PCGWCWPTRI/ > > <https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/6H5K6SGUDIXPISJVG4SYP2PCGWCWPTRI/> > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > <http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/>
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