On Sunday 30 April 2006 22:50, Edward Loper wrote:
> I see two possible reasons:
Another use case, observed in the wild:
- An library function is written to take an arbitrary number of
positional arguments using *args syntax. The library is released,
presumably creating dependencies on the specific signature of the
function. In a subsequent version of the function, the function is
determined to need additional information. The only way to add an
argument is to use a keyword for which there is no positional
equivalent.
-Fred
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org>
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