On Mar 7, 10:24 pm, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > True. It would make sense to disallow mutable values as > > initial values for optional arguments. The present behavior is silly. > > That would be the worst of both worlds. The main alternative to the > present behavior is re-computing the default value every time the > function is entered.
One can do this is today's Python if he's so inclined, albeit with a more verbose syntax: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/502206 George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
