On 10/09/2013 08:09 AM, Larry Hastings wrote:
On 10/09/2013 04:45 PM, Anders J. Munch wrote: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 listIn any case, boy am I -1 on this. If you wish to continue this proposal further please write your own PEP.
A leading underscore indicates a private implementation detail. The proposed signature now looks like we can provide a key and reverse, but only riskily provide the actual thing we want sorted. No warm fuzzy feelings there! ;)
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