On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Aaron Castironpi Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 15, 11:33 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Aaron "Castironpi" Brady wrote: >> >> [about how default argument behavior should, in his opinion, be changed] >> >> Say what you like. The language is as it is by choice. Were it, for some >> reason, to change we would then be receiving posts every week that >> didn't understand the *new* behavior. >> >> Sometimes people just have to learn to confirm with reality instead of >> requiring reality to confirm with their preconceptions. This is one such >> case. >> >> regards >> Steve >> -- >> Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 >> Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ > > I am not convinced it should either stay or go, but it's hard to argue > one way or the other about something so deeply entrenched. However, > what are your thoughts, whatever the default behavior is, on a > decorator that provides the alternative? That is, a decorator that > either reevaluates default arguments each time when the language > evaluates them once, or a decorator that evaluates arguments once, > when the languages evaluates them each time? > > P.S. >> we would then be receiving posts every week that >> didn't understand the *new* behavior. > That is not obvious and I don't know of any empirical evidence that > entails it. Hard to search the standard library for that figure.
Although primitive and likely somewhat flawed, you may find the statistics in the "Compatibility Issues" section of http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-February/005704.html to be of interest. Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
