On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Tim Peters wrote: > > [Gordon McMillan] > > > ... > > > Or are you saying that if functions have attributes, people will > > > all of a sudden expect that function locals will have initialized > > > and maintained state? > > > > I expect that they'll expect exactly what happens in JavaScript, which > > supports function attributes too, and where it's often used as a > > nicer-than-globals way to get the effect of C-like mutable statics > > (conceptually) local to the function. > > so it's no longer an experimental feature, it's a "static variables" > thing? Don't be so argumentative. Tim suggested a possible use. Not what it really means or how it really works. I look at it as labelling a function with metadata about that function. I use globals or class attrs for "static" data. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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