Gaetano Mendola wrote:
>>>> Oliver Jowett wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> David Fetter wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dennis has pointed out that mixing the call-with-named-parameter
>>>>>> interface with call-by-order-of-parameters one would cause confusion,
>>>>>
>>>>> Python's equivalent syntax allows you to mix the two forms so long
>>>>> as all the by-position parameters come first:
I'm worried about:
(1) foo( integer, float); (2) foo( integer, integer, float a = 3 );
which one is called with: foo( 2, 2 )?
This is a separate issue to the one I was discussing above. I am not talking about default arguments at all here; I am talking about mixing positional parameter syntax with named parameter syntax.
-O
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