On 4/21/06, Talin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes:
>
>> To prevent more abominations like this, let me pronounce that I now
>> like the single-star syntax:
>>
>> def foo(a, b, *, x=1, y=2): ...
>
> Thank you :) It was getting pretty strange there.
>
> The variation that I was thinking of was a little shorter, but not
> necessarily better:
>
> def foo( a, b; x=1, y=2 ): ...
At the risk of hypergeneralization... If *arg means "put the rest of the
positional arguments in arg", then if we simply allow arg to be a tuple...
def foo(*(a, b)): ... # disallow keyword args.
def foo(a, b, *(), x, y): ... # disallow positional args after b.
def foo(*(a, b), x, y): ... # a, b _must_ be positional; x, y keyword.
That () = () is currently a syntax error might be considered a reason to
use the lone star spelling instead of *(), but I find the tuple more obvious.
/Paul
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