On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 3:42 PM Mike Miller <python-id...@mgmiller.net>
wrote:
>
> On 2021-10-25 11:27, Ethan Furman wrote:
> > - `deferred` soft keyword
>
>
> "defer" please.
>
> This construct did not happen in the past, and it's shorter of course.
>
> -Mike
>
For soft keyword options, defer is better than deferred.
But previously I suggested ellipses (because to me it looks kind of like
"later..."). Chris A didn't care for it, but and I still kind of like it
despite his objections:
def f(a, b = ... []):
...
Chris A said it could be a problem because ellipses are legal in an
expression, but I don't think that should be a problem for the PEG parser?
This would be syntactically legal, though not very useful:
def f(a, b = ... ...): ...
...and this would be syntactically legal, but would result in an error:
def f(a, b = ... ...+1): ...
If everyone hates the ... bikeshed color, my other suggestion would be
"late" (standing for "late binding"), which is 1 character shorter than
"defer", and semantically meaningful:
def f(a, b = late []): ...
---
Ricky.
"I've never met a Kentucky man who wasn't either thinking about going home
or actually going home." - Happy Chandler
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