What is a function parameter =[] for?

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 19-11-15 om 19:20 schreef Mark Lawrence:
> On 19/11/2015 17:30, BartC wrote:
>> On 19/11/2015 16:01, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 12:19 am, BartC wrote:
>>
>>> You know, for somebody who claims to design and implement your own
>>> languages, you sometimes go to a remarkable effort to claim to be a
>>> dummy.
>>> You write your own interpreter, but can't understand early versus late
>>> binding? I don't think so.
>>
>> No I don't; so? Maybe my interpreter can do its thing without being
>> aware that what it's doing has been called 'late binding' or 'early
>> binding' by someone else.
>>
>> At least its default values work as expected!
>>
> 
> Python's default values work exactly as I expect as the subject has been debated at least twice a year
> on c.l.py for the 15 or so years that I've been using Python.  If your expectations are clearly wrong,
> that is your problem and your problem alone. Absolution to your problem is another language that does
> meet all of your expectations, but as there is never a "one size fits all" the only one that I can
> think of is your own, whatever that is called.

Nonsense. The fact that an experienced programmer, gets to be extremely familiar with some languages
and thus gets his expectations adapted, doesn't mean that there is something wrong with what newby's
intuitively expect to happen.

On the contrary, the regularity with how this subjects keep coming up, is an indication that this
is a problem with python.

-- 
Antoon.