[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] peps: Update for 436, explicitly supporting positional parameters forever, amen.
Stefan Krah
stefan at bytereef.org
Mon Mar 18 12:05:52 CET 2013
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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