[Python-Dev] The docstring hack for signature information has to go

[Guido van Rossum]

Larry,

Can you summarize why neither of the two schemes you tried so far worked?
AFAIR the original scheme was to support the 3.3-compatible syntax; there
was some kind of corner-case problem with this, so you switched to the new
"sig=..." syntax, but obviously this has poor compatibility with 3.3. Can
you remind us of what the corner-case was? How bad would it be if we
decided to just live with it or if we added a new flag bit (only recognized
by 3.4) to disambiguate corner-cases?

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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