2012/6/14 Alexandre Zani <alexandre.z...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:46:38 -0700 >> Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: >>> >>> This is no different from what we have with strings now: >>> >>> --> 'aA'.islower() >>> False >>> --> 'aA'.isupper() >>> False >>> --> 'a'.islower() >>> True >>> --> 'A'.isupper() >>> True >>> >>> We know that a string cannot be both all-upper and all-lower at the same >>> time; >> >> We know that because it's common wisdom for everyone (although who knows >> what oddities the unicode consortium may come up with in the future). >> Whether a given function argument may be of several kinds at the same >> time is much less obvious to most people. > > Is it obvious to most people? No. Is it obvious to most users of this > functionality? I would expect so. This isn't some implementation > detail, this is a characteristic of python parameters. If you don't > understand it, you are probably not the audience for signature.
Consequently, the "kind" model should match up very well with their understanding that a parameter can only be one "kind" at a time. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
