[Python-Dev] PEP 362 Third Revision

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 13:36:54 CEST 2012


On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-06-14, at 11:21 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Yury Selivanov
>> <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 2012-06-14, at 7:16 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>>
>>>> POSITIONAL_ONLY
>>>> POSITIONAL_OR_KEYWORD
>>>> VAR_POSITIONAL
>>>> KEYWORD_ONLY
>>>> VAR_KEYWORD
>>>
>>> I like those.  A bit too lengthy and verbose, but the names
>>> are consistent.
>>
>> In this case, I'm willing to trade a bit of verbosity for accuracy. It
>> also suggests a possible, more explicit name for the attribute:
>> "binding".
>
> Can we keep it called 'kind'?
>
> While technically 'binding' is more precise description for this, it's
> not as intuitive as 'kind'.

Sure, I'm still OK with "kind".

Cheers,
Nick.

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