On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:26 PM Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28.02.17 23:17, Victor Stinner wrote:
> > My question is: would it make sense to implement this feature in
> > Python directly? If yes, what should be the syntax? Use "/" marker?
> > Use the @positional() decorator?
>
> <snip>
> The problem with the "/" marker is that it looks ugly. There was an
> excuse for the "*" marker -- it came from omitting the name in "*args".
> The "*" prefix itself means an iterable unpacking, but "/" is not used
> neither as prefix nor suffix.
>
I like the idea, but I wanted to note that since it has no meaning from the
point of view of the defined function, it can be done with a magic
decorator, so new syntax is not required:
@positional_only[:4]
def replace(self, old, new, count=-1):
...
It may ease googling and backporting, by defining positional_only[slice] to
be the identity function.
Elazar
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