On 9/20/2012 10:12 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
2012/9/20 Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com>:
Thoughts?
I tried to define the error messages in terms of the callee's
signature. I call the formals that are not variadic, keyword variadic,
or keyword-only, positional. For example, in
def f(a, b, c, *args, d):
pass
a, b, and c are positional. Hence the "positional" in error messages.
They are positional-or-keyword without defaults.
As you noted in your next message, keyword-only arguments need to be
distinguished from these "positional" arguments somehow.
Positional-or-keyword and positional-only also need to be distinguished.
'Positional' is ambiguous. One problem for standardized error messages
is the the header info does not always tell the complete story.
I'm certainly open to suggestions.
I gave several suggestions for 'positional-or-keyword' in my response to
Mark.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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