Another thing I don't like about this default argument proposal is that using it in any non-trivial way would tend to put implementation details of the function up in the header, which should be reserved for info describing the calling signature.
The following example from the PEP is an extreme instance of this: > def bar(b=my_sum((["b"] * (2 * 3))[:4])): > print b -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
