Late-binding of function defaults (was Re: What is a function parameter =[] for?)

[BartC]

On 27/11/2015 01:46, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:52 pm, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>
>> For someone who claims to be interested in language design, you're
>> remarkably dismissive of pretty much the entire industry.  I don't think
>> it's worth the effort to try to change your mind.
>
> In fairness to BartC, I don't think that's malicious or trolling. I think it
> is as pure an example of what Paul Graham calls the Blub Paradox as I've
> ever seen.

"Well, PaulGraham has a very (very) low opinion of OO, mostly because he 
does a lot of stuff that most people haven't been able to do, and he 
says he almost never "resorts" to it. However, more recent posts on LL1 
suggest PaulGraham is coming around. He's starting to be less derogatory 
to OO (and seems to have done a 180 on continuations). No one, not even 
PaulGraham himself, ever said that PaulGraham was immune to the 
BlubParadox. ;) "

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BlubParadox

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bartc