Python handles globals badly.
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Tue Sep 15 21:20:15 EDT 2015
On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:13 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Python is a remarkably clean and consistent language. There's only one
> kind of value (the object -- everything is an object, even classes are
> objects). The syntax isn't full of special cases. For example, there's
> nothing like this horror from Ruby:
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> def a(x=4)
> x+2
> end
>
> b = 1
> print "a + b => ", (a + b), "\n"
> print "a+b => ", (a+b), "\n"
> print "a+ b => ", (a+ b), "\n"
> print "a +b => ", (a +b), "\n"
>
>
> which prints:
>
> 7
> 7
> 7
> 3
Of course it doesn't. It prints:
a + b => 7
a+b => 7
a+ b => 7
a +b => 3
Sorry about that.
--
Steven
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