[Python-3000] Pronouncement on parameter lists

[Baptiste Carvello]

Greg Ewing a écrit :
> Jim Jewett wrote:
> 
> 
>>It has not yet been specified what would happen to additional
>>positional arguments that get passed in anyway.  (Swallow or raise an
>>Exception?)
> 
> 
> I've always intended that there would be an exception.
> 
If so, why not replace the lone star, whose meaning is not clear, with 
"*forbidden", as in:

def f(a, b, *forbidden, c, d=1)

The meaning would be clearer: "remaining positional arguments are forbidden, and 
will thus raise an exception".

Baptiste