On 22/04/06, Paul Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
This is close (ish) to the "def [positional-only arguments](mixed
arguments){keyword-only arguments}" syntax I floated earlier, which
Guido then promptly rejected. It looks like we won't get a way to
force an argument to be given positionally, as he's also already
voiced a distaste for nested bracketing in argument lists.
--Sam
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