[Python-Dev] PEP 3102: Keyword-only arguments (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Fri May 5 16:50:45 CEST 2006

On Friday 05 May 2006 10:16, Nick Coghlan wrote:

And I imagine API designers that abused the feature would end up being abused by their users :)

If used to create poor APIs, I think that's a reasonable outcome. :-)

I don't think using such a feature to constrain APIs is necessarily abuse, which is what seems to be the point of disagreement in this thread.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

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