On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >> For a non-native English speaker, 'a' and 'b' don't evoke 'after' and >> 'before' but simply the first two letters of the latin alphabet, and >> their ordering is therefore obvious with respect to function arguments. > > It's not just non-native English speakers either. I too think of a, b as > being first, second rather than after, before.
I was mostly being facetious (my main point being there's no perfect solution here), though I *have* seen serious code using the b=before/a=after convention. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
