Jim Jewett <jimjjewett <at> gmail.com> writes: > > On 4/22/06, Talin <talin <at> acm.org> wrote: > > Here's a condensed list of the open issues that have been raised by people > > so far: > > I'm not sure whether this was raised explicitly, but Ian at least > mentioned it: Are they keys to the dictionary in some way restricted? > > For instance, I think it would be reasonable to say that only valid > names (or possibly expressions starting with a valid name) would be > looked up in the dictionary, as a way of explaining why {0} means > position zero, rather than dict['0'].
Think 'keyword arguments', not 'dict keys'. You can't call a function with '0' as a keyword. -- Talin _______________________________________________ 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