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

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Wed Oct 9 19:59:06 CEST 2013


Am 09.10.2013 19:00, schrieb Ethan Furman:
> On 10/09/2013 09:05 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
>> 
>> I remain -1 on forcing "Python syntax" to support all of these odd corner
>> cases (and positional-only is already a corner case, range/addch are
>> seriously so).
> 
> Considering the prevalence of positional-only functions and methods, I don't
> think they can be called a corner-case. (Or maybe I've just had the bad luck
> to run into all of the few there are.)

No, but their number can be decreased substantially without much additional
work while switching to Argument Clinic.

Georg



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