Oops I forgot that this could evaluate to a set if “a” was defined beforehand.
Maybe not a good idea after all. It’s not a good idea to use a mutable object
anyways a default value.
> On 24 Oct 2021, at 4:57 PM, Abdulla Al Kathiri <alkathiri.abdu...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> How about this syntax:
>
> def insort_right(a, x, lo=0, hi={len(a)}, *, key=None): …
>
> Similar to the expression curly brackets in f-string. If the user didn’t
> specify a value for hi, the expression between the curly brackets will be
> evaluated and assigned to hi.
> Abdulla
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 24 Oct 2021, at 4:46 PM, Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> It seems to me that the syntax for late binding could be chosen so as to
>> leave the possibility of expansion open in the future, and defer (har har)
>> the entire generalized thunk discussion?
>>
>> So why not go with syntax like this, where before the ? just represents a
>> keyword to be bike shedded ("defer", "thunk", "later", "...."):
>>
>> def func(a, b=? a): ...
>>
>> I kind of like using the ellipses btw; it looks sort of like "later..." to
>> me:
>>
>> def func(a, b = ... a):
>> ...
>>
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