On 2021-10-18 11:20, Mathew Elman wrote:
I don't know if this has been suggested before, or if this is outlandishly impossible (though I would be surprised if it was), so apologies in advance if so.I have on occasion come across a situation where I use/write a signature like this: def insert_x_into_y(x, y): ... or worsedef insert_into(item, container):... where, despite a driving idea of python syntax being readability in english, the function signature is distinctly not english. "I'll just go and insert into this item that container", is not only never said but is actually ambiguous in english. What would be really cool, is if python let you write function signatures like this: def insert_(item)_into_(container): ... where the arguments dispersed between the function name are positional only argument, and any key word arguments would have to go at the end. It would create a function that could be called as: insert_(1)_into_(my_list)orinsert__into_(1, my_list)
[snip] It looks like what you want is the Smalltalk language. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/BZHMDPWR63FHY6YG6ZOXXZ55CWMHH2YF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
