On 1/18/07, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson@uci.edu> wrote:
Joel Bender <jjb5@cornell.edu> wrote:
Calvin Spealman wrote:
I dont understand how that would be different than doing
c = c if c is not None else Bar([2,3,4])
But he actually ones a variable that *does* keep state between calls (like a mutable default arg), but can't be overridden.
With your proposal, you are seeking to attempt to fix a "problem" that no one has complained about. -1 .
Sure they have, and they've solved it (under different names) in plenty of other languages. In python, the only current solution seems to be turning the function into a class (with self) or at least a closure. People have griped about this. For What Its Worth, my personal opinion is that having to create an object instead of a function is annoying, but not so bad (or so frequent) that it is worth special syntax. -jJ