Stepan Koltsov <yozh@mx1.ru>: > The question is: To be or^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Why not evaluate default > parameters of a function at THE function call, not at function def > (as is done currenly)? For example, C++ (a nice language, isn't it? ;-) > ) evaluates default parameters at function call. Among other things, because that choice (what old LISP hackers like me call `dynamic scoping') turns out to be far more difficult to model mentally than Python's lexical scoping. Forty years of LISP experience says Python does the right thing. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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