[Python-Dev] Positional-only parameters in Python

[Mario Corchero]

Ups, indeed, totally missed it. Removed it from
https://github.com/mariocj89/peps/blob/pep-pos-only/pep-9999.rst

On 21 January 2018 at 21:44, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

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> On 01/21/2018 05:59 AM, Mario Corchero wrote:
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> Credit for making left option groups higher precedence goes to
> Nick Coghlan. (Conversation in person at PyCon US 2013.)
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>
> Actually Argument Clinic has always given left option groups higher
> precedence.  This theoretically allows Argument Clinic to elegantly support
> the range builtin as "range([start,] stop, [step])", although nobody has
> bothered to actually convert range() to Clinic.  (Which is reasonable--I
> don't think there's any reason to bother.)
>
> Anyway, this acknowledgement is the only mention of "option groups" in the
> document.  Perhaps this was in reference to the now-abandoned idea of
> adding "option groups" to the language?  If so, this acknowledgement should
> probably be removed too.
>
>
> */arry*
>
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