Well, c.l.p was strangely quiet in response to my posting PEP 3102 a few days ago. Only two comments, one of a general "ick" variety that seems mainly based on personal bias, and another which likes the idea but votes a -1 on the 'naked star' syntax.
So in other words, nothing has really changed - most people seem to like the idea of keyword-only arguments, but find the 'required keyword arguments' syntax confusing. (I haven't found many people who were in favor of it, however Guido says that's the form that he prefers.) A few people have complained about keyword-only arguments with no defaults, but my feeling is that these concerns are based on a mistaken understanding of how keyword arguments work. (Many people seem to conflate keyword arguments and default argument values, because they both use '=' and they both are required to come after positional arguments.) What's the next step after this? One thing that's missing is a sample implementation. Unfortunately, its not quite as simple as hacking lambda or ASTs, this one affects code generation (AFAICT) and is not something I feel confident to do myself. (I'm also continuing to work on 3101, expect a new rev soon.) -- 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
