OK, if no one has anything against, Pablo and I can start a PEP just for the ‘/‘ simple syntax (without the argument group part).
On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 at 07:17, Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> wrote: > > > On 01/19/2018 08:47 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > - proposing the full PEP 547, including the "argument groups" feature > (which is a bigger change, but allows the expression of signatures > like "range([start,] stop, [step,] /)") > > > I hope we don't go down that route. > > I added support for "argument groups" to Argument Clinic in an attempt to > support legacy functions with crazy argument signatures that count their > arguments. (For example, curses.window.overlay() takes either one or seven > arguments exactly--not two!, and not six!.) I have deeply mixed feelings > about the result, and I would hate to see support for it added to the > language. If I had my way I'd rewrite or replace those functions and have > only modern Pythonic signatures in the standard library. > > > */arry* >
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