[Python-Dev] PEP 457: Syntax For Positional-Only Parameters

[Larry Hastings]

On 10/09/2013 04:45 PM, Anders J. Munch wrote:
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> Larry Hastings wrote:
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> > I look forward to an alternate suggestion.  This is the least-bad
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> > thing I could come up with.
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> How about a naming convention instead, where using a leading
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> underscore in a parameter name is a hint that it is positional-only.
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> For example, the docstring of sorted:
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> sorted(iterable, key=None, reverse=False) --> new sorted list
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> would become:
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> sorted(_iterable, key=None, reverse=False) --> new sorted list
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> It seems more intuitive than the slash, and requires no change to the
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> toolchain.
>

And the spelling for range()?  curses.window.addch()?  I suggest your 
proposed syntax is insufficient to codify existing practice.

In any case, boy am I -1 on this.  If you wish to continue this proposal 
further please write your own PEP.


//arry/
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