On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:35 AM Anders Hovmöller <bo...@killingar.net> wrote:
> Using keyword arguments is not painful. It's ugly in some unusual cases, > such as creating helper functions with nearly the same signature. > > It’s more painful than positional. To me the fact that everyone who works > on code bases that are of non-trivial size see positional arguments being > used for calls with more than 3 arguments is a pretty obvious proof. > Looking through my recent code, I find I rarely call functions passing more than 3 arguments, unless using * or ** unpacking. This might be part of the difference in our styles. I feel this pain daily. You aren’t me so you can’t say if I feel this or > not. > Yes, of course. Pain is subjective. Are you aware that changing Python syntax is painful for not only the implementers, but also the users?
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