On 9/15/15 3:15 PM, Jan-Ivar Bruaroey wrote:
> On 9/15/15 2:56 PM, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>> Is this because the dictionary definers have defined that {} (empty
>> dictionary) should be treated the same as a missing argument, and want
>> to make the possibly-missing argument explicit?
Yes, I'm pretty sure that's it. The binding code makes the dictionary
invariant in the implementation, meaning it can't implement different
behavior for the two (less code == less bugs).
.: Jan-Ivar :.
Received on Thursday, 17 September 2015 17:41:46 UTC