On 9 October 2013 15:53, Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: > My goal in writing the PEP was to codify existing practice, which meant > reflecting these (annoying!) corner cases accurately.
That's fair. But I would argue that we very much don't want to encourage anyone ever duplicating that practice with new functions, which is why I don't think that this syntax should ever be implemented in the form described in Python. OTOH, there *may* be reasons in the future for wanting to support positional-only syntax in Python - that design should not be constrained by the need (which is Argument Clinic specific, AIUI) to cater for existing builtins' practice. Paul _______________________________________________ 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
