[Ironpython-users] IronPython, Daily Digest 9/28/2012

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Hi ironpython,

Here's your Daily Digest of new issues for project "IronPython".

In today's digest:ISSUES

1. [New issue] Stray \u00F8 in source code

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ISSUES

1. [New issue] Stray \u00F8 in source code
http://ironpython.codeplex.com/workitem/33180
User jdhardy has proposed the issue:

"Some parameter names in IronPython have \u00F8 in them. This is a legacy thing, as described bu DinoV:

"This is a bit of a hack...  It's there so that "args" is not accepted as a keyword argument.

Because \u00F8 is not a valid identifier in Python there is no possibility that the user can
provide this as a keyword argument.  We ran into some bug I believe back in the IronPython
1.1 time frame where someone was trying to provide args as a keyword arg and this was a
quick and easy fix.  A better fix would probably to add some [NoKeywordArgBinding] attribute
to the parameter and then update the overload resolver so that we don't allow binding of
keyword args for that parameter.   And I suspect that will become necessary for Python 3.x
support where I think you can have Unicode identifiers (even though this exact identifier
is unlikely to be used :) )."

Having the overload resolver ignore ParamDictionaryAttribute and ParamArrayAttribute is a big win (since those would never be called by keyword); adding NoKeywordBindingAttribute would get us the rest of the way."
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