Re: [Python-ideas] Short form for keyword arguments and dicts

On Jun 24, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Andrew Barnert <abarnert@yahoo.com> wrote:

I suppose if someone later reorders the parameters of get_special_url without making any other change to the API, my code will still work. But how often does that happen? And I'm not sure a language change that encourages such API changes is a good thing.

An library implementor can already write code that allows him to have keyword-only arguments, so he can avoid polluting the compatibility he must maintain in his positional arguments. It's less about allowing him to reorder them, and more about separating the positional and keyword arguments. I've not seen a solution I'm totally sold on yet, but supporting keyword argument shorthand seems like a good idea to me.