While confusion with optional arguments is somewhat unfortunate, the name came from an already established convention. A lot of languages have exactly the same concept, varying between names like Optional, Option, and Maybe. I don't think coming up with a Python-specific name for the same thing is necessarily better.
Of course, it's immaterial now that the union syntax is preferred. _______________________________________________ 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/4IAHIQ4V6UOGH2AJX46KWTXVBUJEP3MJ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
