> Well, those things are called "default argument values", not "default argument expressions", you know.
No, I didn't know that, and I'd guess that the vast majority of Python developers don't, because people don't generally learn Python by reading the docs front to back and finding out the official names of everything.
> It's a value that's reused for every function call, not an expression that re-evaluated at every function call.
No one is confused about that. I'm aware that's how it is, but is that how it should be? I.e. if we could choose for this to be reused for every function call or re-evaluated every function call, which results in more intuitive behavior?
No, I didn't know that, and I'd guess that the vast majority of Python developers don't, because people don't generally learn Python by reading the docs front to back and finding out the official names of everything.
> It's a value that's reused for every function call, not an expression that re-evaluated at every function call.
No one is confused about that. I'm aware that's how it is, but is that how it should be? I.e. if we could choose for this to be reused for every function call or re-evaluated every function call, which results in more intuitive behavior?