BartC <b...@freeuk.com>: > Yes. In the languages I create, pretty much everything is mutable, > provided it can supply an l-value. Constructs such as those for empty > lists ([] in Python, () in mine) aren't l-values. > > But it doesn't apply default values.
Python's default-value semantics is analogous to C++: ======================================================================== #include <iostream> using namespace std; static int z; static void f(int &x = z) { x++; } int main() { cout << z << endl; f(); cout << z << endl; f(); cout << z << endl; return 0; } ======================================================================== which prints: 0 1 2 Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list