On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 2:16 PM, אלעזר <elazarg@gmail.com> wrote:I like the idea, but I wanted to note that since it has no meaning from the point of view of the defined function, it can be done with a magic decorator, so new syntax is not required:@positional_only[:4]def replace(self, old, new, count=-1):...I"m confused, what does the [:4] mean?if you want old and new to be positional only, wouldn't it be something like:@positional_only(3)
def replace(self, old, new, count=-1):...i.e. the first three parameters are positional only.and why indexing/slice syntax???+! on the idea -- still on the fence about syntax.-CHB
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