On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > 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 > > 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. That statement sounds like someone spent a lot of time doing research on it. Is there a reference I could go look up? -a
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