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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Late-binding of function defaults (was Re: What is a function parameter =[] for?)
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On 26/11/2015 05:08, Ben Finney wrote:
> Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> +1.
>
> BartC, when you want to join us in discussions on good faith – that is,
> honestly wanting to learn Python rather than dogmatically persisting in
> your misperceptions dogmatically onto it – we'll still be here, making
> happy use of Python the way it is.
>

Ben and Ned, I'd like to thank both of you for these comments as they 
are put far more eloquently and diplomatically than I would ever manage.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence