Sept. 27, 2011
9:04 p.m.
On 27 September 2011 21:38, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: [...]
As I remember, the idea foundered because it was thought too confusing to have an expression that was written inside the function but evaluated outside of it. If we're seriously considering the current proposal, presumably we've gotten over that? Or is it still a valid objection?
I have been reading this thread from the start and FWIW, it's something that I have been feeling uncomfortable about. I value the guarantee that no code in the body of a def statement is executed when the def statement itself is executed. This proposal would break this guarantee. -- Arnaud