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Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Mon Feb 9 23:10:10 CET 2015

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015, at 16:32, Guido van Rossum wrote:

FWIW, I've encouraged Neil and others to complete this code as a prerequisite for a code review (but I can't review it myself). I am mildly in favor of the PEP -- if the code works and looks maintainable I would accept it. (A few things got changed in the PEP as a result of the work.)

In a way, it's a simplification, since functions are now simply called with a sequence of "generalized arguments"; there's no privileged kwarg or vararg. Of course, I wonder how much of f(**w, x, y, *k, *b, **d, c) we would see...

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