2013/10/9 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: > The PEP needs to state more clearly up front (preferably in the title) that > it's about *reserving* a Python level syntax that matches the syntax we > worked out for Argument Clinic at PyCon US. Explicitly stating that the > requirements that drive the Argument Clinic design are to support the > signature of all current CPython builtins and extension modules would also > be helpful. > > Generally, it needs to be a bit clearer that the intent of the PEP isn't to > say "let's do this", it's to be explicit that acceptance of the Argument > Clinic PEP severely constrains the design space for possible solutions if we > ever *did* implement Python level support for positional only arguments.
Why does a syntax need to be reserved? Documentation conventions and the syntax of internal tools like argument clinic may be changed any time we like. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
