Jan. 20, 2016
6:58 p.m.
On 1/20/2016 11:48 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
But 'shared' and 'local' are both the wrong words to use here. Also probably this should syntactically be tied to the function header so the time of evaluation is clear(er).
Use ';' in the parameter list, followed by name=expr pairs. The question is whether names after are initialized local variables, subject to rebinding at runtime, or named constants, with the names replaced by the values at definition time. In the former case, a type hint could by included. In the latter case, which is much better for optimization, the fixed object would already be typed. def f(int a, int b=1; int c=2) => int -- Terry Jan Reedy