On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 10:13, Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org> wrote: > > On 19/06/2022 04:42, David Mertz, Ph.D. wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2022, 9:21 PM Rob Cliffe >> >> Sorry again, but IMO discussing any model except one where late-bound >> defaults are evaluated at function call time is just adding FUD. > > > It's definitely rude to repeatedly state that anyone who's opinion is > different from yours is "adding FUD" and doesn't belong in the thread. > > I was not talking about people whose opinion was different from mine. I was > talking about people who obscured the discussion of a proposal by talking > about a different proposal. And that, IMO, would be rude if it were done > deliberately, though I accept that it wasn't. > > > The topic of "late binding in function signatures" simply isn't *orthogonal* > to "late binding in the general sense." Yes, they are distinct, but very > closely adjacent. > > We disagree about that. Please consider the *IMPLEMENTATIONS* of each. I > respectfully suggest that you may conclude that they are not so close after > all. > > PS In my support may I quote from a post from Chris: > > [Steven D'Aprano] Chris may choose to reject this generalised lazy evaluation > idea, but if > so it needs to go into a Rejected Ideas section. Or he may decide that > actually having a generalised lazy evaluation idea is *brilliant* and > much nicer than making defaults a special case. > > [Chris] It's an almost completely orthogonal proposal. I used to have a > reference to it in the PEP but removed it because it was unhelpful. >
Since it appears to matter to people, I've readded a mention of it. It's just freshly pushed so you might not see it instantly, but within a few minutes (or browse the source code on GitHub), you should see deferred evaluation mentioned in PEP 671. 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/OVN6E37EB73TZIW7EPKJWFDAGR47CQO2/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
