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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Looks like this issue has been fixed in
the coming beta4. Please wait for a few moments. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>liangml<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, March 08, 2006
5:47 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> users@lists.ironpython.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [IronPython] Default
parameters problem In IronPython 1.0</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Hi all:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> It seems that IronPython has a
limit about default parameters. Please see this below, I don't know</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>why the last tow tests work well, but the first one doesn't
:(</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=blue face=SimSun><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:blue'>IronPython 1.0.2255 (Beta) on .NET 2.0.50727.42<br>
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.<br>
>>> import System<br>
>>> def foo(a,b,c,d=1,e=2): t=System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(c)<br>
>>> foo("aaaa","bbbb","cccc")<br>
Traceback (most recent call last):<br>
File , line 0, in input##1<br>
File , line 0, in foo<br>
File , line 0, in foo<br>
Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.<br>
>>> def foo(a,b,c,d=1): t=System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(c)<br>
>>> foo("aaaa","bbbb","cccc")<br>
>>> def foo(c,d=1,e=2): t=System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(c)<br>
>>> foo("cccc")<br>
>>></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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