> What's the advantage of a mode switch? This seems perfectly clear to > > me without any sort of magical cutoff. > > I agree with Chris. I'm not a fan of the original proposal with the "=" > (because I don't think this is a problem that needs solving), but at > least it made more sense than a mode-switch among the list of parameters. > > Eric >
What's the advantage of a mode switch? This seems perfectly clear to > me without any sort of magical cutoff. > > ChrisA > Here's a specific advantage I had in mind (it might not be considered very significant for many and that's ok): copying and pasting. If I have a function I want to call, sometimes I'll often hyper-click through to the function and copy the signature instead of typing it all out. I do this to save a little typing but also in large part so that I have the entire function signature right in front of me while I type out the function call, and that helps prevent little errors-- forgetting a parameter or calling one incorrectly, that sort of thing. So if you had a function like this: def f(a, b, *, c=None, d=None, e=None, f=None, g=None): ... And wanted to call it like this: f(a=a, b=b, c=c, g=g) An easy way to reliably type the call is to copy the function signature, delete the parts you aren't going to use, and then type all of the "=a", "=b", etc parts. A nice thing about the mode switch syntax could be that it makes this routine faster (assuming there are no type hints!!!): f(*, a, b, c, g) All you have to do is add the *, delete the parts you don't need, and you're done. This is a small thing. But it got me excited about the proposed syntax.
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