On Oct 16, 1:05 am, "Chris Rebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > ofhttp://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 > >
I remember, I've seen it before. Are you proposing that the number of posts we'd receive about this feature is proportional to its frequency of usage? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
