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1. [New issue] Stray \u00F8 in source code
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ISSUES
1. [New issue] Stray \u00F8 in source code
http://ironpython.codeplex.com/workitem/33180
User jdhardy has proposed the issue:
"Some parameter names in IronPython have \u00F8 in them. This is a legacy
thing, as described bu DinoV:
"This is a bit of a hack... It's there so that "args" is not accepted as a
keyword argument.
Because \u00F8 is not a valid identifier in Python there is no possibility that
the user can
provide this as a keyword argument. We ran into some bug I believe back in the
IronPython
1.1 time frame where someone was trying to provide args as a keyword arg and
this was a
quick and easy fix. A better fix would probably to add some
[NoKeywordArgBinding] attribute
to the parameter and then update the overload resolver so that we don't allow
binding of
keyword args for that parameter. And I suspect that will become necessary for
Python 3.x
support where I think you can have Unicode identifiers (even though this exact
identifier
is unlikely to be used :) )."
Having the overload resolver ignore ParamDictionaryAttribute and
ParamArrayAttribute is a big win (since those would never be called by
keyword); adding NoKeywordBindingAttribute would get us the rest of the way."
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