How about this syntax:
def insort_right(a, x, lo=0, hi={len(a)}, *, key=None): …
Similar to the expression curly brackets in f-string. If the user didn’t
specify a value for hi, the expression between the curly brackets will be
evaluated and assigned to hi.
Abdulla
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> On 24 Oct 2021, at 4:46 PM, Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote:
>
>
> It seems to me that the syntax for late binding could be chosen so as to
> leave the possibility of expansion open in the future, and defer (har har)
> the entire generalized thunk discussion?
>
> So why not go with syntax like this, where before the ? just represents a
> keyword to be bike shedded ("defer", "thunk", "later", "...."):
>
> def func(a, b=? a): ...
>
> I kind of like using the ellipses btw; it looks sort of like "later..." to
> me:
>
> def func(a, b = ... a):
> ...
>
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