what does 'a=b=c=[]' do

[Robert Kern]

On 12/23/11 1:23 PM, rusi wrote:
> On Dec 23, 6:10 pm, Robert Kern<robert.k... at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 12/23/11 10:22 AM, rusi wrote:
>>> On Dec 23, 2:39 pm, Steven D'Aprano<steve
>>> +comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info>    wrote:

>>>> Some people might argue that it is a mistake, a minor feature which
>>>> allegedly causes more difficulties than benefits. I do not hold with that
>>>> idea. But either way, it is not a bug to be fixed, but a deliberate
>>>> consequence of intended semantics.
>>
>>> I did not ask or imply that it should be 'fixed', just that language
>>> misfeatures should be treated with extra care.
>>
>> "Bug" means, roughly, "something that should be fixed" not just any "thing that
>> has some unwanted consequences". So yes, by calling it a bug you are asking and
>> implying just that. If you don't mean that, don't use the word "bug".
>
> Of course it should be fixed.  The repeated recurrence of it as a
> standard gotcha as well as the python ideas list testifies to that.

So you were lying when you said that you did not ask or imply that it should be 
'fixed'? Please make up your mind. It's quite rude to "defend" your position by 
constantly shifting it whenever you get challenged on it.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco