Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It would be nice if setdefault didn't evaluate the second argument
> unless it needed it. However I guess it would have to be a language
> feature to do that.
Personally, I'd love a language feature that let you create a function
that didn't evaluate arguments until they were actually used - lazy
evaluation. That lets you write the C ?: operator as a function, for
a start.
Hmmm. No, iterators can't be used to fake it. Oh well.
<mike
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