2% of functions is a lot of functions. We're talking about a language that's been around 30 years. The feature set is pretty mature. If it were lacking features that would improve a much larger percent of code for so long, I don't think it would be as popular. It's not like the next PIP is going to be as big as the for-loop. On Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 9:56:40 PM UTC-6 David Mertz, Ph.D. wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2021, 10:38 PM Steven D'Aprano > >> "If param is missing **or None**, the default if blah..." >> I reject Chris' characterisation of this as a hack. There are function >> parameters where None will *never* in any conceivable circumstances become >> a valid argument value, and it is safe to use it as a sentinel. >> > > In particular, the cases where None will never, in any conceivable > circumstances, be a non-sentinel value are at least 98% of all the > functions (that have named parameters) I've ever written in Python. > > All of this discussion of a syntax change is for, at most, 2% of functions > that need a different sentinel. >
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