On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 6:18 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've just updated PEP 671 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0671/ > with some additional information about the reference implementation, > and some clarifications elsewhere. > > *PEP 671: Syntax for late-bound function argument defaults* > > Questions, for you all: > > 1) If this feature existed in Python 3.11 exactly as described, would > you use it?
I would actively avoid using this feature and discourage people from using it because: > 2) Independently: Is the syntactic distinction between "=" and "=>" a > cognitive burden? I think that this imposes a significant cognitive burden, not for the simple cases, but when combined with the more advanced function definition syntax. I think this has the potential to make debugging large code-bases much harder. There is nothing that this proposal makes possible that is not already possible with more explicit code. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/3WSRN5NMENAPEUAYQPZCKUW2G43PNJM7/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
