[Python-ideas] keyword arguments everywhere (stdlib) - issue8706

[Greg Ewing]

I wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
>> Please do not give syntactic meaning to [parameter], unless it matches 
>> the existing convention for optional parameters.
> 
> Why should it have to do that?

Sorry, I just realised what you meant by that -- you weren't
talking about Python syntax, but rather *metasyntax* used in
documentation. You have a point there.

-- 
Greg