Rhodri James wrote:
that syntax looks at best highly misleading -- how many parameters are we passing? I don't like it at all.
Maybe something like this would be better: f(=a, =b, =c) Much more suggestive that you're passing a keyword argument. As for whether consistent naming is a good idea, seems to me it's the obvious thing to do when e.g. you're overriding a method, to keep the signature the same for people who want to pass arguments by keyword. You'd need to have a pretty strong reason *not* to keep the parameter names the same. Given that, it's natural to want a way to avoid repeating yourself so much when passing them on. So I think the underlying idea has merit, but the particular syntax proposed is not the best. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
