On Jul 11, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Mike Orr wrote:
>
> It is awkward but Python has no other built-in value for "default".
> Using a string means people may spell it differently, and the
> .metadata and .engine properties require a fixed value. Making it
> optional means the second positional argument would sometimes move to
> the first (like Pylons render_response("/template.html") vs
> render_response("mako", "/template.html"), and I'm absolutely opposed
> to that. Mike doesn't like positional arguments for SAContext but i
> think they make sense in these cases. So None was the best compromise
> I could find.
i've no problem with positional arguments.
>
> I'm open to changing it to "default" if people like that better. It
> does mean people would have to pass the exact string or
> sacontext.DEFAULT (which used to exist but currently doesn't).
id -1 on that, if possible. if theres some way for "no arguments" to
do the right (i.e. expected) thing, thats best.
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