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Subject: Re: Default mutable parameters in functions
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:00:25 -0400
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On Thu, Apr 3, 2014, at 20:38, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> I just wish I had a quid for every time somebody expects something out 
> of Python, that way I'd have retired years ago.  At least here it's not 
> accompanied by "as that's how it works in <some other language>".

I can't imagine a language that would work that way. For one, it would
also imply that passing a value would change the default for future
calls even for non-mutable types.