
Do any other languages already have this feature? Can you show some actual real-life code that would benefit from this, as opposed to pretend code like: foo(bar=, qux=) I think that if I had seen this syntax as a beginner, I would have had absolutely no idea how to interpret it. I probably would have decided that Python was an unreadably cryptic language and gone on to learn something else. Of course, with 20+ years of experience reading and writing code, I know better now. I would interpret it as setting bar and qux to some kind of Undefined value. I am very sympathetic to the rationale: "it is quite common to find code that forwards keyword parameters having to re-state keyword arguments names" and I've discussed similar/related issues myself, e.g. here: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2018-February/881615.html But I am not convinced that adding magic syntax to implicitly guess the value wanted as argument if it happens to match the parameter name is a good design feature. Is being explicit about the value that you are passing to a parameter really such a burden that we need special syntax to avoid stating what value we are using as the argument? I don't think it is. And I would far prefer to read explicit code like this: # Slightly modified from actual code. self.do_something( meta=meta, dunder=dunder, private=private, invert=invert, ignorecase=ignorecase, ) over the implicit version: # Looks like code I haven't finished writing :-( self.do_something(meta=, dunder=, private=, invert=, ignorecase=) Out of the millions of possible values we might pass, I don't think that the func(spam=spam) case is so special that we want to give it special syntax. -- Steven