On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Joseph Hackman <josephhackman@gmail.com> wrote:
My honest preference would be that the [] is evaluated fresh each time the function is called. def stuff(arg=delayed f()): would result in f() being called every time stuff() is. This seems more valuable to me than just doing it once when the function is first called.
This doesn't make sense. Function definition time is very different than function execution time. Changing that distinction is a WAY bigger change than I think we should contemplate. Moreover, there is a completely obvious way to spell the behavior you want: def stuff(): arg = f() # ... whatever ... This is exactly the obvious way to spell "f() is called every time stuff() is". -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.