[Python-ideas] Positional only arguments

[George Sakkis]

On 5/16/07, Benji York <benji at zope.com> wrote:

> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Personally, when I really wanted this, I've given the arguments names
> > like __foo.
>
> That could be enshrined as the syntax, much like "private" attributes.

What's the future of "private" attributes in Py3K ? I remember Raymond
Hettinger bringing up a challenge on c.l.py about a decorator that
could replace the double underscore mangling and Michele Simionato
caming up with a bytecode hack that showed it is possible.

If they're staying though, +epsilon for blessing __args as
positional-only (for some positive epsilon ;-)).

George

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