I was wondering that if there are so many arguments to a function that it *looks* ugly, that it might just *be* ugly.
For one, too many required arguments to a function (constructor, whatever) is already strange. Binding them as attributes of the object, unmodified in a constructor also seems to be rare. Matplotlib, for example, might take 8 (optional keyword) arguments for a Figure ( https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/lib/matplotlib/figure.py#L268), but then at a bare minimum, the vertical space required is *doubled* by the need for pesky if-blocks and logic. Self-assignment is a pittance. Are there any better examples of where adding new syntax could help readability for programmers, both new and old? On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Erik <pyt...@lucidity.plus.com> wrote: > On 26/04/17 13:19, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > >> On 25 April 2017 at 19:30, Erik <pyt...@lucidity.plus.com> wrote: >> >>> decorators don't cut it anyway (at least not those >>> proposed) because they blindly assign ALL of the arguments. I'm more than >>> happy to hear of something that solves both of those problems without >>> needing syntax changes though, as that means I can have it today ;) >>> >> >> Sorry - a decorator won't "blindly assign all argments" - it will do >> that just if it is written to do so. >> > > Right, and the three or four variants suggested (and the > vars(self).update() suggestion) all do exactly that. I was talking about > the specific responses (though I can see my language is vague). > > [FWIW I've been using Python the whole time that decorators have existed > and I've yet to need to write one - I've _used_ some non-parameterized ones > though - so I guess I'd forgotten that they can take parameters] > > E. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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