Edward Segall added the comment:
I agree with most of your points: A tutorial should be brief and should not go
down rabbit holes. Expanded discussion of default parameter behavior would
probably fit better with the other facets of parameter speceification and
parameter passing, perhaps
New submission from Edward Segall:
I am using the tutorial to learn Python. I know many other languages, and I've
taught programming language theory, but even so I found the warning in Section
4.7.1 about Default Argument Values to be confusing. After I spent some effort
investigating what