Talin wrote: > In this case, however, I don't see why we can't have the keyword > arguments out of order.
But what's the *benefit* of being allowed to write that? > The important thing is that the behavior be clear and unambiguous, > which I think this is. It might be unambiguous, but I disagree completely about the 'clear'. Upon encountering such a call, I would have to stop and think quite hard, and probably go and consult the definition, to figure out what it's doing. To me, the only reason to pass non-optional positional arguments by keyword is when the call signature is not short and well-known enough for positional arguments to be clear -- and in that case, it's much better to pass *all* of them by keyword. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
