Larry Hastings wrote:
> I look forward to an alternate suggestion. This is the least-bad
> thing I could come up with.
How about a naming convention instead, where using a leading
underscore in a parameter name is a hint that it is positional-only.
For example, the docstring of sorted:
sorted(iterable, key=None, reverse=False) --> new sorted list
would become:
sorted(_iterable, key=None, reverse=False) --> new sorted list
It seems more intuitive than the slash, and requires no change to the
toolchain.
Although, it may collide slightly with code that uses a leading
underscore to indicate "implementation detail" for a parameter with a
default value, but a quick scan of the std. lib. suggests that that's
very rare.
regards, Anders
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