[Python-3000] default argument surprises

2008-08-26 Thread Sam Bishop
Hi, all. I know that Python 3.0 is quite a ways along, but I'd like to make two small suggestions with regards to how the language works. (I would have spoken up earlier, except that I'm very new to Python.) I've talked to a few of my co-workers who are also new to Python, and we've all been sur

Re: [Python-3000] default argument surprises

2008-08-27 Thread Sam Bishop
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Chris Rebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might then be interested in the following related discussions from > last year wherein I proposed something extremely similar: > > [Python-ideas] proto-PEP: Fixing Non-constant Default Arguments > http://mail.python.org/