On Mon, May 01, 2006, Edward Loper wrote: > > But is it necessary to syntactically *enforce* that the arguments be > used as keywords? I.e., why not just document that the arguments should > be used as keyword arguments, and leave it at that. If users insist on > using them positionally, then their code will be less readable, and > might break if you decide to change the order of the parameters, but > we're all consenting adults. (And if you *do* believe that the > parameters should all be passed as keywords, then I don't see any reason > why you'd ever be motivated to change their order.)
IIRC, part of the motivation for this is to make it easier for super() to work correctly. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." --Richard Bach _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
