[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] peps: Update for 436, explicitly supporting positional parameters forever, amen. (original) (raw)
Stefan Krah stefan at bytereef.org
Mon Mar 18 12:05:52 CET 2013
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larry.hastings <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
+ Establishes that all the proceeding arguments are + positional-only. For now, Argument Clinic does not + support functions with both positional-only and + non-positional-only arguments; therefore, if
/+ is specified for a function, currently it must always + be after the last parameter. Also, Argument Clinic + does not currently support default values for + positional-only parameters. + +(The semantics of/follow a syntax for positional-only +parameters in Python once proposed by Guido. [5] )
I think the entire PEP would be easier to understand if the main sections only contained the envisaged end result and all current preprocessor deficiencies were listed in a single isolated section.
Stefan Krah
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