On 9 October 2013 18:00, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > On 10/09/2013 09:05 AM, Paul Moore wrote: >> >> >> I remain -1 on forcing "Python syntax" to support all of these odd >> corner cases (and positional-only is already a corner case, >> range/addch are seriously so). > > > Considering the prevalence of positional-only functions and methods, I don't > think they can be called a corner-case. (Or maybe I've just had the bad luck > to run into all of the few there are.)
You're probably right - I was exaggerating, sorry. I do however consider most positional-only arguments in builtins to be an implementation artifact - if they could have been positional-or-keyword when they were introduced, they may well have have been (keyword args in C were a later addition to the C API, I can't recall exactly when but a good chunk of the existing builtins were already there when they arrived). 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
